Abstract
Can North Korea Be Trusted to be Serious about Returning to the Six Party Talks?
Highlights
In the two and half years following the succession of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, interaction between Washington and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has see-sawed widely
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Having dispelled the myth that the DPRK is an aggressive war-mongering state that can never be trusted to abide by international agreements or nuclear non-proliferation norms, it is necessary to conclude this article by contemplating the road ahead with North Korea
Summary
In the two and half years following the succession of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, interaction between Washington and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has see-sawed widely. The author contends that North Korea’s allegedly provocative behavior since 2009 may have been driven a combination of the DPRK’s fears for regime survival in what it perceives to be an increasingly complicated and unpredictable world and a siege mentality resulting from past centuries of past foreign domination This much is evident when an attempt is made to view things from the perspective of the North Korean leadership.[6] The author proposes to develop this argument with four sections, beginning by examining the factors that have led to the image of the DPRK as a hostile, war-mongering state intent on developing nuclear weapons.
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