21세기 변화 중의 미중관계와 북핵문제 = The Evolving U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century and North Korean Nuclear Issue

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The 2nd North Korean Nuclear Crisis has been deteriorating since 2002 when it occurred. The North Korean nuclear issue has become the subject of complicated international political games. It provides the United States and China with a delicate juncture of cooperation. The U.S.-China relations will be the most important international variable in the process of North Korean nuclear crisis. It will be unrealistic if one neglects the variable. The purpose of this article is to find the correlation between the North Korean nuclear crisis and evolving the U.S-China relations and its implications.


The nature of the U.S.-China relations can be characterized as 'subtlety' and 'complexity.' How to decipher the U.S.-China relations is critical of finding out the solution of the crisis. The U.S.-China relations have experienced a considerable change after Obama came to power. Understanding such evolving the U.S.-China relations is not an easy task, given the magnitude, complexity of issues involved.


The North Korean nuclear crisis becomes a symbolic topos, illustrating the degree of the U.S.-China cooperation. Coincidently, the deeper the cooperation is, the more influence over the cooperation North Korea has. The U.S. and China's views over how to achieve the policy objective of denuclearization of North Korea are different although the U.S. and China shares the goals of denuclearization, non-proliferation, and priority on stability. These situations make the prospectus for denuclearization of North Korea difficult. It is the very time that South Korea must take more progressive and creative actions to resolve this crisis in which it becomes a political game between the U.S. and China.

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