The EU’s Policy towards North Korea : Experiment of Engagement and Supporting Humanitarian Security

Abstract

The EU has approached North Korea with objectives promoting regional peace and stability, denuclearization, and the improvement of North Korean human rights policies, in order to contribute toward the fulfillment of its population’s physiological needs with a normative mind. In the EU’s policy access regarding Pyongyang, it would use multifarious instruments, in objective to achieve critical engagement and discourse. The EU also extended diplomatic and economic relations and cooperation with North Korea, continuing its humanitarian assistance and food security incentives. Moreover, it undertook a supplementary role towards North Korean nuclear and missile nonproliferation, groping for an honest mediator role. But none of them, given political and other nonpolitical aspects, could be accomplished by any means. The EU yet faces a lot of difficulties on North Korean affairs as before, and yet it continues to lend humanitarian and non-humanitarian assistance. It also aims to induce further change in North Korea and foster its participation as a member in the global community. These efforts are remarkable, but the dilemma still go rest on. In spite of that, above all, the EU should continue to teach and instill in individual empowerment, capacity building, and reallocating military expenses for North Korean survival.