Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:1135Hits:21159548Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID181689
Title ProperNegotiating with North Korea … Again
LanguageENG
AuthorGallucci, Robert L
Summary / Abstract (Note)The emerging consensus in the United States is that the real US objective in talks with North Korea should no longer be its denuclearisation. The superficially sensible conventional wisdom underlying this position is that Pyongyang learned from America’s adventures in Iraq and Libya that only a nuclear deterrent precludes regime change, and that it would not relinquish something it worked so hard to attain at the negotiating table. These assumptions may still be wrong, and it would be a mistake to pre-emptively surrender an essential objective, especially given that doing so would incentivise Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons. Washington should carefully explore the possibility that the North would give up its nuclear weapons if it could achieve political, economic and diplomatic integration into the international community and true normalisation of its relations with the US, and prepare for an arduous negotiating process.
`In' analytical NoteSurvival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 63, No.6; Dec-Jan 2021-22 : p.101-106
Journal SourceSurvival : the IISS Quarterly Vol: 63 No 6
Key WordsNuclear Weapons ;  Arms Control ;  Deterrence ;  United States ;  Pyongyang ;  North Kore


 
 
Media / Other Links  Full Text