North Korea has repeatedly provoked crises in the unexpected time and circumstances until now. The existing studies on the North Korea's provocative actions considered it's warlike regime or domestic factors or anti-South Korea's factors as the main c...
North Korea has repeatedly provoked crises in the unexpected time and circumstances until now. The existing studies on the North Korea's provocative actions considered it's warlike regime or domestic factors or anti-South Korea's factors as the main causes. However, if we analyze the first nuclear test in 2006 and the second nuclear test in 2009 and the shelling of Yeonpyeng in 2010, we find that the China's policy toward the North and the U.S.'s policy toward the North has changed after the North's provocative actions. These situations support that motives and causes of the North's crisis strategy are external factors, specifically North Korea and China's relations or the North Korea and the US relations.
After the second nuclear crisis, the six-party talks made a momentum for China, the US, North Korea's triangle. Since then the North has made crisis strategy, taking into account of China, an asymmetric allied power and the US, an asymmetric adversary. The fear of abandonment and entrapment in the alliance has made effect between North Korea and China and deterrence and spiral model has worked between North Korea and the US. Moreover North Korea has made crisis strategies when the positive security dependence toward China rised and the negative security dependence toward the US heightened. China and the US has changed their policies toward North Korea after North Korea's provocative actions.
In the future North Korea will possibly make crisis strategies, considering the positive security dependence and the negative security dependence. Therefore South Korea and international society will cope with North Korea's provocative actions, examining of motives and causes of North Korea's crisis strategy.