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2007.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Curbing North Korea's development of nuclear weapons has long been one of the main challenges for US foreign policy. The approach of the Bush Administration has been grounded in a preference for a confrontational posture. Recently, US policy has undergone a significant change in dealing with the DPRK. Washington has endorsed a policy it once dismissed at best as counterproductive and at worst as appeasement: engaging the North Korean regime. This article seeks to explain the Administration's newfound flexibility toward the DPRK. It reflects on recent changes in both the international strategic and the US domestic political environments that have likely driven the Administration to revoke its hard-line stance
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