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Accession Number:
AD1031468
Title:
Resolving the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Readjusting the U.S.-ROK Alliance
Corporate Author:
ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES HONOLULU HI HONOLULU United States
Report Date:
2005-01-01
Abstract:
This chapter begins by examining the questions, What are Americas interests, vis--vis North Korea and What should America be willing to do to ensure the integrity of its interests. Between 1950 and the late 1980s, the U.S. government predominately viewed North Korea as a direct threat against the security of South Korea, an important East Asian ally. During this period, in order to deter North Korea from attacking South Korea and to assure South Korea of Americas intention to defend its territorial integrity, the U.S. stationed tens of thousands of combat troops on the South Korean peninsula. However, since 1986, when North Korea began operating its 5-megawatt electric nuclear power reactor at Yongbyon, followed in 1988 by a U.S. satellite detection of a Yongbyon-based plutonium reprocessing plant, the U.S. has viewed North Korea as more than just a regional threat. Now as a potential nuclear weapons proliferator, American national interests towards North Korea have exponentially increased.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pages:
0042
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
0.56MB
