| Summary/Abstract |
Public diplomacy promotion programs have become the key tool used by the United States to provide international support for US foreign policy toward North Korea, as well as to put information pressure on the North Korean regime and attempt to influence the North Korean audience. Despite the fact that the key goal of American foreign policy and public diplomacy with regard to the DPRK is denuclearization of North Korea, the transformation of the North Korean regime is put forward as a condition for its conventionalization. The author concludes that the United States will continue its aggressive informational public diplomacy toward North Korea, due to growing competition with China and Washington's unwillingness to incorporate North Korea in the international community without transforming its political system.
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