The Security Council's reaction to the nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) in 2016 through Resolutions 22 have significantly changed the picture of UN sanctions regime against this country and created the most comprehensive, legally-binding, sanctions program imposed against a State since Iraq in the 1990s. An effective denuclearization policy should contain the following principles: provide Pyongyang with an official security declaration, tangible economic incentives, legitimacy through economic and political normalization, in exchange for dismantlement of its nuclear programs. Now as a potential nuclear weapons proliferator, American national interests towards North Korea have exponentially increased. has viewed North Korea as more than just a regional threat. satellite detection of a Yongbyon-based plutonium reprocessing plant, the U.S. However, since 1986, when North Korea began operating its 5-megawatt (electric) nuclear power reactor at Yongbyon, followed in 1988 by a U.S. stationed tens of thousands of combat troops on the South Korean peninsula. During this period, in order to deter North Korea from attacking South Korea and to assure South Korea of America’s intention to defend its territorial integrity, the U.S. government predominately viewed North Korea as a direct threat against the security of South Korea, an important East Asian ally. This chapter begins by examining the questions, “What are America’s interests, vis-à-vis North Korea?” and “What should America be willing to do to ensure the integrity of its interests?” Between 1950 and the late 1980s, the U.S. Security Council should negotiate with DPRK as part of its responsibility to maintaining international peace and security, based on the concept of mutually reducing threats and disarmament in general. is more or less a justification for imperialism and a useful word for propaganda. vital interest in East Asian region, the classification of DPRK as rogue state by the U.S. And that, though North Korean nuclear development/enrichment has serious regional and global consequences adverse to the U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea shifted from the Cold War containment policy to nuclear non-proliferation through constructive engagement, appeasement and negotiations. The paper contends that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concerns over suspected North Korean nuclear aspirations in the early 1990s, the focus of the U.S. This article examines the United States' foreign policy toward North Korea since the end of the Cold War, adopting the Rational Actor model as framework of analysis and attempting a conceptual elucidation of the rogue state.
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