A Study Of Trump Administration's Policy Towards North Korea

Since the outbreak of the nuclear crisis in North Korea,the issue of North Korea has become an important issue on the diplomatic agenda of successive presidents of the United States.The Korean issue includes the Korean nuclear issue and the issue of peace on the peninsula.With the fact that the DPRK has become a “nuclear”state,the Korean nuclear issue has increasingly become an important threat to the national security of the United States.After trump took office,he put the issue of North Korea on the priority issue of the diplomatic agenda.Trump administration's policy toward North Korea focuses on solving the nuclear issue of North Korea and realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula,but it is relatively indifferent to the peace issue on the peninsula.Trump's North Korea policy mainly includes: in the field of political diplomacy,it is mainly manifested in the early limit pressure to the late mandatory dialogue;in the economic field,trump government has increased the sanctions against North Korea,even after the “Kim Jong Un and Trump Conference”,the United States still insists on strengthening the sanctions against North Korea,almost involving all the economic industries of North Korea;in the military,trump used to It has repeatedly proposed a preemptive military strike against North Korea,but after the US DPRK summit,the intensity and scale of the US ROK military exercises have been weakening,which also shows that trump has limited military options.In short,the trump administration's policy toward North Korea is hard to get rid of the previous U.S.government's policy framework towards North Korea-the combination of stick and carrot.In the early days of trump administration's taking office,the tough policy towards North Korea led to continued tension between the United States and North Korea in 2017,and the two sides played games in many aspects.In 2018,the relationship between the United States and the DPRK eased down.Starting from the improvement of the relationship between the ROK and the DPRK,the relationship between the United States and the DPRK also developed to a certain extent.Although the United States and North Korea have achieved contact dialogue and the North Korean issue has returned to the track of dialogue,the two sides have yet to establish a clear mechanism to solve the problem between the two countries.Extreme pressure and contact dialogue will become a new normal for the United States to deal with the North Korea issue.There are three reasons.First of all,the United States needs to maintain its legitimacy on the Korean peninsula with the help of the Korean issue,so as to contain and suppress the relevant countries in Northeast Asia.Secondly,the change of Kim Jong Un's political position is conducive to direct contact and dialogue between the United States and the DPRK.Finally,the active mediation of Northeast Asian countries also provided support and help for the US DPRK contacts.