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Synopsis: North Korea’s economic doubts and the U.S.’s nuclearization distresses need to be addressed.
Introduction
North Korea and the US are headed towards a diplomatic showdown. This was a result of Biden’s call for strict discouragement in response to North Korea’s nuclear programme. Pyongyang accused the Biden administration of being hostile.
- Mr Biden said that the nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea are a grave threat to America’s security and world security in his first congressional address. He promised to respond through diplomacy and strict discouragement.
- Biden administration has finished a review of the U.S.’s North Korea policy. Mr Biden is going to use Barack Obama’s strategic patience and Donald Trump’s top-level summitry in dealing with the North Korean nuclear challenge.
How has the post-war American Presidents dealt with North Korea?
North Korea has stayed an unsettled foreign policy mystery for all post-War American Presidents.
- Firstly, U.S. Presidents have shown a will to diplomatically engage with Pyongyang in contemporary times.
- For instance, the Clinton administration had signed a framework agreement with Pyongyang to halt its nuclear programme.
- Mr Obama had started talks with North Korea in 2012, which collapsed after Pyongyang launched a satellite. He then adopted strategic patience.
- Mr Trump changed Mr Obama’s North Korea policy by reaching out to the regime and meeting its leader Kim Jong-un. They met thrice but without a step forward.
- Secondly, the Trump administration and North Korea had agreed to a complete de-nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula in theory but failed to agree on its formula. In 2019, the U.S. offered removal of approvals for de-nuclearisation but North Korea rejected it.
- Pyongyang had taken a phased approach and wanted approvals for removal in return. Ever since there has been no progress in bonds.
What should the US do to achieve the denuclearisation of Korea?
North Korea had conducted short-range missile tests after Mr Biden assumed office. The U.S. saw this as a provocation.
- The U.S.’s key goal in north-eastern Asia is the de-nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. The only practical way to achieve this is through diplomacy. A military strike on North Korea is out of the question as it is a nuclear power.
- The Trump-Kim summits have created a diplomatic momentum for engagement. North Korea sticks to the self-imposed suspension on nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests. Despite its threats to expand its nuclear programme.
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The way forward
- North Korea is going through a threatening economic crisis and is open to talks. Mr Biden should grab this opportunity and try to reach common ground with Mr Kim.
- It should address both North Korea’s economic worries and the U.S.’s nuclear concerns. That should be the focus of the Biden administration’s new North Korean strategy.
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