Proposal,Implementation And Evaluation Of The Trump Administration’s DPRK Policy

At the beginning of 2018,the situation on the Korean Peninsula has developed towards an unprecedented trend,and the DPRK US relations have achieved a historic breakthrough.The leaders of the DPRK and the United States achieved a historic meeting in a relaxed atmosphere and reached a series of cooperative intentions conducive to the settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue.Now the trump administration has ended its term of office and its policy towards the DPRK has completed its historical mission.Reviewing the trump administration’s policy towards North Korea,we can find that "extreme pressure" and "contact" are its main policy mechanisms.The background of Trump’s DPRK policy is closely related to the failure of the "strategic patience" policy,the eastward shift of the US strategic focus and the significance of solving the DPRK nuclear issue.Similarly,the trump administration has a careful internal logic in its policy towards the DPRK.When the urgency of the DPRK nuclear issue increases,it seizes the DPRK’s demand for security and hopes to reduce the US responsibility and improve the US situation through "controlling the DPRK with China" and "promoting talks with pressure".According to the development process,the trump administration’s practice of DPRK policy can be divided into extreme pressure stage,contact and dialogue stage and a new round of "strategic patience" stage.At each stage,the trump administration has taken corresponding "pressure" measures in military,political,diplomatic,economic and other fields.In the pressure stage,it emphasizes the strategy of "promoting talks with pressure".In the contact and dialogue stage and the new round of "strategic patience" stage,it exerts a specific degree and form of "control" on North Korea through "contact",so as to serve the interests and objectives of other regions of the United States.Compared with previous US governments,the trump administration’s policy towards the DPRK is also unique.It is a single track operation,emphasizing pressure first and then contact;Not only the degree of pressure and the intensity of sanctions are unprecedented,but also some of them highlight the "use China to control the DPRK".From a current perspective,we can neither attribute the unprecedented development of the situation on the Korean peninsula since 2018 and the historic breakthrough in DPRK US relations to the trump administration’s DPRK policy,nor believe that the DPRK policy with the trump administration can solve the DPRK nuclear issue.In addition to the utility of "extreme pressure",there are also reasons for the coupling of North Korea’s national strategic transformation and "extreme pressure",and North Korea’s national strategic transformation accounts for a larger proportion.Since the trump administration’s DPRK policy has continuity in essence,and the difference is only different from previous US governments to some extent,the trump administration’s DPRK policy,like previous US governments,has not made substantive progress in solving the DPRK nuclear issue.Through the Biden administration’s existing external statements,it can be seen that its policy towards the DPRK has continuity in the policy mechanism,and the policy logic towards the DPRK can not promote the DPRK nuclear issue to enter the track of substantive solution.North Korea has always been a wait-and-see attitude since the Biden government came to power.The Biden government’s willingness to contact has not received a response from North Korea.If the DPRK and the United States adhere to their original positions and do not make policy adjustments in the future,the DPRK nuclear issue will still not be resolved.