North Korea's Defensive Power and U.S.-North Korea Relations.

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: December 22, 2000| Author: Park, Kyung-Ae | Copyright information

Over the years, the U.S. has attempted to exert an influence on North Korea to contain the latter's potential threat to the security of East Asia in general and South Korea in particular. In an effort to exhibit its power over North Korea -- its ability to get North Korea to do things the latter otherwise would not do -- the U.S. has sometimes threatened the use of force, as it did at the height of the nuclear crisis in 1994. When the U.S. approved the dispatch of substantial milit...

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