IS A NUCLEAR FREE NORTH KOREA POSSIBLE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF US’S NORTH KOREAN POLICY?

Year 2021, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 509 - 540, 31.12.2021

Yasemin Çokgüçlü

https://doi.org/10.37093/ijsi.946602

Abstract

For years, the US has shaped North Korean policies depending on North Korea's nuclear activities which is challenging for US’s international hegemony. Despite different strategies projected by US’s North Korean policy, the attempts to stop North Korea’s nuclear activities were insufficient. In this study, US's approaches to creating a nuclear-free North Korea are explained by taking advantage of the strategies developed in the 1990s and 2000s in line with the security policy approach of the US, and the multiple consensus processes such as the Agreed Framework and Six Party Talks. The study claims that the US policy towards North Korea has failed to denuclearize North Korea. Despite, US initiatives and sanctions the fact that North Korea is a nuclear-armed power by continuing its nuclear activities is the most important indicator that it will not give up its nuclear power. In addition to this, although it is observed that North Korea makes some concessions periodically, the reason why the US policy has not made a nuclear-free North Korea possible seems to lie in both the main reasons for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and inadequate policies developed towards North Korea due to inefficient US evaluations.

Keywords

US Politics Towards North Korea, North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Approach, Nuclear Diplomacy, Agreed Framework, Six Party Talks

ABD’NİN KUZEY KORE POLİTİKASI ÇERÇEVESİNDE NÜKLEERSİZ BİR KUZEY KORE MÜMKÜN MÜ?

Abstract

ABD yıllardır Kuzey Kore politikasını, Kuzey Kore’nin nükleer faaliyetlerinin uluslararası hegemonyasına meydan okumasına bağlı olarak şekillendirmiştir. ABD’nin Kuzey Kore politikasının öngördüğü farklı stratejilere rağmen Kuzey Kore’nin nükleer faaliyetlerinin durdurulması girişimleri yetersiz kalmıştır. Bu çalışmada, ABD’nin güvenlik politikası yaklaşımı doğrultusunda, 1990’lı ve 2000’li yıllarda geliştirdiği stratejilerden, Çerçeve Anlaşması ve Altı Taraflı Müzakere görüşmeleri gibi çoklu mutabakat süreçlerinden yararlanarak, ABD’nin nükleersiz bir Kuzey Kore oluşturma yaklaşımları açıklanmaktadır. Çalışma, ABD’nin Kuzey Kore politikasının Kuzey Kore’yi nükleersizleştirmede başarısız olduğunu iddia etmektedir. Kuzey Kore’nin, ABD girişim ve yaptırımlarına rağmen nükleer faaliyetlerine devam ederek nükleer silah sahibi bir güç olması, nükleer gücünden vazgeçmeyeceğinin en önemli göstergesidir. Bununla beraber, dönemsel olarak Kuzey Kore’nin bazı tavizlerde bulunduğu gözlemlense bile, ABD politikasının nükleersiz bir Kuzey Kore’yi mümkün kılamamasının sebebinin, hem Kuzey Kore’nin nükleer silah edinmesindeki temel sebeplerde hem de ABD’nin Kuzey Kore’ye yönelik verimsiz değerlendirmeleri sonucu geliştirilen yetersiz politikalarda yattığı görülmektedir.

Keywords

ABD’nin Kuzey Kore politikası, Kuzey Kore’nin nükleer silah yaklaşımı, Nükleer Diplomasi, Çerçeve Anlaşması, Altı Taraflı Müzakereler

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