The Trump Administration's Approach to the North Korea ‎Nuclear Crisis

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1 Member of Department of Political Science- yasouj university

2 Isfahan University

Abstract

North Korea's nuclear program has become one of the serious threats to world peace in the past two decades. So that neither the UN Security Council nor any of the US Presidents have been able to find a comprehensive solution to it. June 2018 agreement between the United States and North Korea to begin talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program once again made hopes for the world observer to find solution for this crisis. The main question of the research is that What is the Tramp approach to the North Korean nuclear crisis? And what goals and plans are it pursuing? The main hypothesis of the study is that the United States is pursuing a comprehensive nuclear disarmament and transforming North Korea into an acceptable actor by the international community. To this end, the policy of increasing regional and global pressure on North Korea and sending this message to Pyongyang that nuclear weapons can not to provide its security for this country are on the agenda of the Trump. The findings of the study show that North Korea's nuclear disarmament is an introduction to increasing pressure on the country in other political and legal areas to change its behavior in the future. Pyongyang will face two situations if it continues to negotiate: a behavior change or becoming a regime like South Korea or Japan, or a regime change in the future, like Iraq and Libya.

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