@article{2018:suh:north_kore,
title = {North Korea and Arms Control: Past Agreements and Future Proposals},
year = {2018},
note = {The United States had officially refused to enter into direct dialogue
with North Korea, until recently. Dialogue had previously been
conditioned on Pyongyang’s commitment to complete, verified and
irreversible denuclearization - the normative hazard of otherwise
rewarding North Korea’s nuclear ambitions had mainly driven the
dismissal of un-preconditioned bilateral talks. The Trump
administration’s sudden high-level engagement, however, has
illustrated the renunciation of long-standing normative underpinnings
of U.S. Korea policy and condemnation of previous administrations’
achievements. As the June 12 Singapore summit produced the promise of
follow-up negotiations, re-visiting past nuclear-related negotiations
with North Korea is now more crucial than ever. Lessons learnt from
past diplomatic attempts at denuclearizing North Korea suggest that a
process of gradual steps - falling more in the category of arms
control than disarmament measures - can move Northeast Asia towards
stability and peacefulness, with the complete dismantlement of
Pyongyang nuclear materials and facilities being left to future
administrations in Washington and Seoul.},
journal = {S&F Sicherheit und Frieden},
pages = {92--97},
author = {Suh, Elisabeth},
volume = {36},
number = {2}
}