Özet:

For years, the US has shaped North Korean policies depending on North Korea's nuclear activities which is challenging for US’s international hegemony. Despite different strategies projected by US’s North Korean policy, the attempts to stop North Korea’s nuclear activities were insufficient. In this study, US's approaches to creating a nuclear-free North Korea are explained by taking advantage of the strategies developed in the 1990s and 2000s in line with the security policy approach of the US, and the multiple consensus processes such as the Agreed Framework and Six Party Talks. The study claims that the US policy towards North Korea has failed to denuclearize North Korea. Despite, US initiatives and sanctions the fact that North Korea is a nuclear-armed power by continuing its nuclear activities is the most important indicator that it will not give up its nuclear power. In addition to this, although it is observed that North Korea makes some concessions periodically, the reason why the US policy has not made a nuclear-free North Korea possible seems to lie in both the main reasons for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and inadequate policies developed towards North Korea due to inefficient US evaluations.

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