ABSTRACT
In December 2002, North Korea set in motion a second round of nuclear diplomacy by announcing that it was resuming the operation and construction of nuclear facilities. Faced with Washington’s financial sanctions imposed in 2005 and refusal to engage in serious dialogue, North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles in July 2006 and conducted a nuclear test in October of the same year. In this military-diplomatic campaign, North Korea’s bold calculated adventurism worked. After the nuclear test, the United States shifted its policy toward North Korea, stopped applying the Trading with the Enemy Act to it, and rescinded its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. However, the two countries have yet to establish diplomatic relations.
