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ABSTRACT

Contents

I. Introduction 7

I-1. Chronology - Key events in US - North Korea relations since 1950 8

I-2. U.S. policy toward North Korea before the Clinton administration 11

II. The Clinton administration's policy toward North Korea 13

II-1. US-North Korea Framework Agreement 16

II-1-a. The Background of Agreed Framework 16

II-1-b. Contents of the Agreed Framework 20

II-2. The Perry Report 22

II-2-a. The Background of the Perry Report 22

II-2-b. Contents of the Perry Report 24

III. The Bush administration's Policy toward North Korea 26

III-1. The Armitage Report: A Comprehensive Approach to North Korea 31

III-1-a. The Background of the Armitage Report 32

III-1-b. In comparison with The Perry Report 33

III-2. The Bush administration's North Korea policy since the September 11 terrorist attack 34

IV. The new U.S. North Korea policy 38

V. Conclusion 43

References 44

초록보기

 A little over two and a half year has passed since the extraordinary 3-day summit meeting in Pyongyang between South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Il. The Pyongyang summit, unprecedented in the history of the divided Korean Peninsula, raised hope that one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints was moving from an era of cold war confrontation to one of peace and coexistence. Rapprochement between North and South Korea brought heart-rending family reunions, athletic and cultural exchanges, works to reconnect railways and roads across the DMZ, deepened economic ties and a meeting of defense ministers.

However this promising momentum toward North-South reconciliation have come to a standstill due largely to Pyongyang's condemnation of Washington's hard-line policy. The relations between North Korea and U.S. have stalled since U.S. President George W. Bush came into office with a pessimistic view of and a hard-line posture toward the North Korean regime. After the September 11 terrorist attack, the relations between two countries are getting worse. President Bush listed North Korea in the "axis of evil" which means a state sponsor of terrorism. In October 2002, North Korean officials acknowledged the existence of a clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons that is in violation of the Agreed Framework and other agreements.

Despite the South Korean government's intention to preserve peaceful momentum, relations of two Koreas have been affected by the U.S. policy toward North Korea. Therefore this thesis tries to suggest some ways of the new U.S. policy toward North Korea based on a comparison of U.S. Foreign Policy toward N.K. between The Clinton and Bush Administration.