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North Korea’s development and deployment of nuclear weapons increases Pyongyang’s diplomatic bargaining leverage. It is a strategic response to counteract the great expansion in US leverage with the collapse of the USSR. Post-Cold War American influence and hegemony is justified partly by claiming victory in successfully containing an allegedly imperialist Soviet Union. The US created and led formal and informal international institutions as part of its decades-long containment grand strategy against the USSR. The US now exploits these institutions to expedite US unilateral global preeminence. Third World regimes perceived as remnants of the Cold War era that resist accommodating to American demands are stereotyped as rogue states. Rogue regimes are criminal offenders who should be brought to justice, i.e. regime change is required. The initiation of summit diplomacy between US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un occurred following the January 2018 Hawaiian ballistic missile false alarm. This event and its political consequences illustrate the efficacy of nuclear weapons as bargaining leverage for so-called rogue actors. North Korea is highly unlikely to surrender those weapons that were the instigation for the subsequent summit diplomacy that occurred. A broader, critical trend-focused strategic analysis is necessary to adopt a longer-term view of the on-going Korean nuclear crisis. The aim would be to conceptualize long-term policies that increase the probability that nuclear weapons capability becomes a largely irrelevant issue in interaction between Pyongyang, Seoul, Beijing and Washington.

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Abstract
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THEORY
2.1 Diplomatic Bargaining Leverage and International Political Strategy
2.2 Foreign Policy Motivation, Perception and Strategy
2.3 Stereotypes and Strategy
3. APPLICATION
3.1 The East Asian General Strategy Interactive Setting
3.2 Evaluation of South Korean Strategy
3.3 Capability Assessment for Achieving the Desired Futuㅋre of South Korea’s Strategy
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Trends in the Evolving General Strategic Setting
5. CONCLUSION
5.1 General Strategy Evaluation
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES

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• Benedict E. DeDominicis [ Prof., Department of International Studies, Catholic University of Korea ] Corresponding author

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology(IJACT)

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  계간

• pISSN

  2288-7202

• eISSN

  2288-7318

• 수록기간

  2013~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 600 DDC 700