الموقف الأمريكي تجاه البرنامج النووي الكوري الشمالي

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This study aims at investigating the American position toward the nuclear program of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since, focusing on the period 1993-2006 when the crisis erupted between the United States and North Korea.

Also, the study aims at recognizing the American policy and objectives in counter to (vis -a -vis) Korea’s strategy regarding its nuclear program.

By using the descriptive-analytical method, the study shows that Korean American relations have been charactericed by confrontation and distrust since 1945; North Korea sees the United States as an imperial power seeking hegemony.

But the United States sees North Korea as an evil state seeking to develop nuclear weapons to blackmail the international community after president Bush classifying North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as an “Axis of Evil” to increase pressure on these countries.

As for North Korea, the United States considers Pyongyang as a danger state for its interests in Northeast Asia after its testing long-range missile because it was entitled to possess nuclear weapons, by depicting North Korea as a target for preemptive nuclear attack.

For these reasons, Washington and North Korea’s Asian neighbors have been trying to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear program since 2002.

Therefore, Washington refused bilateral talks with North Korea and preferred the multiple talks so as to strength its pressure on Pyongyang.

In spite of North Korea’s withdrawal from six-party talks (mid-2005), it returned after the last nuclear explosion (9 October) to join the six-party talks.

In the conclusion , the study shows that the crisis will be resolved by diplomacy not by using military force, as a possible scenario.