| Summary: | 碩士 === 中央警察大學 === 公共安全研究所 === 107 === As a small country with special geopolitical status in Northeast Asia, North Korea is surrounded by China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea, which North Korea insists on developing its nuclear power and deterrence capability for the sake of improving its economic growth and reinforcing the power of Kim’s family. Even when the United States (the US) and international governmental organizations (IGOs) impose economic sanctionsdue to their development of nuclear weapon, and even when North Korea experiences famine and economic depression, the population of North Korea can still remain around
25 million and North Korea can still maintain the army around 1.2 million and finally,North Korea has developed its own nuclear weapons capable of striking the Contiguous United States by the end of November 2017.
On the other hand, the US maintains its own national interests and leadership via providing the nuclear umbrella to its allies, Japan and South Korea, and deploying armies on the Korea Peninsula; however, the inconsistency of North Korea policies in each the US Administration, including Richard Bush Jr., Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, has given the ambiguous signals to North Korea, which this inconsistency downgrades the effectiveness of policy. This research focuses on whether the effectiveness of the
economic sanctions imposed by the US and IGOs, inclusive of primary and secondary sanctions work and what kind of economic sanctions can force North Korea back to the table.
This research analyzes the above questions through events. Those events date from the startup of the Kim Jong-il Administration. On the North Korea side, P'yŏngyang tends to force the US to establish the diplomatic relation with North Korea and to legalize the nuclear status of North Korea by means of the development and possession of the nuclear weapon. On the US side, the Washington D.C. forces North Korea to surrender its development of nuclear weapons by means of economic sanctions only. There is anasymmetry comparison of policy between the US and North Korea, which eventually causes that the US fails in preventing North Korea from the acquisition of Nuclear weapons.
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