U.S. Policy Toward North Korea And The North Korea Nuclear Issue

To the United States,the Korean Peninsula possesses a lot of strategic values.On the groundwork of casting back the U.S.policy toward the North Korea,Emphasize discussed the adjusting and its motives of Bush administration policy on North Korea.Expanded the relationship of the North Korea nuclear issue and US policy toward North Korea.The article argues that Korean War changed the United States view of the strategic value that North Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia what makes the U.S.policymakers recognize the importance of its geo-strategic position.Based on the different cognition of policy targets and policy priority,different governments of the US adopted different policies.The Old Bush administration adopted the policy of pushing contact between the North and South and pursuing the unification of the Peninsula in the Cold War mode of thinking which is to contain.The Clinton administration took the policy of coping with North Korea's nuclear and missile as emphasis and experienced from the pressure when the North Korea nuclear crisis erupted to the "soft landing" of medium-term government,and in the late ruling took "contain in engagement" policy that comprehensive engagement with the North Korea.The policy toward North Korea made in Bush administration had undergone three phases in each presidential term.In Bush's first term,the neo-conservatives in the cabinet and 9·11 promoted the come out of the hawk engagement in order to make the North Korea regime collapse.In the second term of Bush administration,with the Neo-Conservatives fading,Condoleezza Rice,the Secretary of State,and Cristopher Hill,the Assistant Secretary of State who won the leading power of policy-making toward North Korea took a more flexible policy and Pragmatic measure at achieving progress in nuclear issue.After the North Korea nuclear tests in 2006,the Bush Administration made strategic adjustment that increase bilateral contacts with the North Korea and make a concession in negotiations.In spite of that,the strategic intention to dominate the Korean Peninsula and the Northeast Asia has never changed.This articles is divided four parts.The first two parts introduce American policy towards North Korea and the production of North Korea nuclear crisis during the Cold War and the initial stage after the Cold War.The last two parts discussed Bush policy towards North Korea during his two tenures of office and the North Korean nuclear involution process and at last anticipate its development and prospect.