A Constructivist View of North Korean Nuclear Proliferation

Since the conclusion of the Korean War, the United States has formulated a policy to deter North Korea's DPRK isolation. In the past few decades, North Korea left the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop its own nuclear weapons, and despite the lack of launch capability, their development has been successful. In the process, the United States adopted an aggressive policy to prevent North Koreans from achieving their goals. It is easy to think that the United States adopted this position to maintain military superiority in this area.

North Korea participated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1985, negotiations began between North Korea and South Korea in 1990 and announced the declaration of denuclearization in 1992. However, due to US intelligence photographs in early 1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requested a special inspection of North Korea's nuclear facilities, which allowed Kim Il Sung to decide from the North Korean nuclear nonproliferation treaty in March 1993 Declared the withdrawal. Resolution 825 of the United Nations Security Council on May 11, 1993 requested North Korea to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and to implement the Declaration on the Declaration of the North to South in 1992. It urged all Member States to encourage North Korea to aggressively respond to resolutions and encourage resolutions on nuclear issues.

In the autumn of 1994, delegations from the US and North Korea gathered in Geneva to establish a framework for solving the nuclear problems of the Korean Peninsula. According to the agreement, North Korea plans to sign a treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in return for US support for the construction of safe nuclear power plants and the US threat to North Korea or the formal guarantee for the use of nuclear weapons . Both sides agreed to take measures to improve political and economic relations. The following year, Korea and Japan invested billions of dollars to help establish a safe nuclear power plant in North Korea. By 2003, North Korea canceled this and all other international agreements on non-proliferation.

In the 1980s American spy satellites began to detect buildings related to North Korea's nuclear weapons program. In December 1985, North Korea pressured the Soviet Union to participate in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), but it did not reach a safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In 1992, the two North Koreans signed a joint statement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; as part of the agreement, North Korea agreed to accept the inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. In February 1993, the inspector of the IAEA found a difference in nuclear activities reported by North Korea; a source said reprocessing enough plutonium for North Korea to produce one or two nuclear weapons . In response to the request for "special inspection" of suspect facilities, North Korea announced withdrawal from the "non-proliferation treaty", but a decision to "suspend" in bilateral nuclear negotiations with the United States began.