Constructivist Analysis Of North Korea

An Analysis of North Korea Attempts at developing Nuclear Weapons from a Constructivist perspective

In August 2015, Kim Jong-un supreme leader of North Korea declared through KCNA “If the U.S. ignites a war… the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will bring an inevitable disaster and disgrace to it. “. It was a formal warning that North Korea is ready to use nuclear weapons at any time. Experts say that North Korea arsenal is growing and by 2020 they could increase its stockpile to more than 100 nuclear weapons. This fact scares the world, but the real reason why North Korea is building a nuclear arsenal is the central theses of this paper which present an analysis from a constructivist perspective. Constructivism as an international

as a kingdom of Old Chosõn later named as Gojoseon (Old Joseon) kingdom, the ancient Korea Kingdom. (Seth, 2011, p.520) Crossing many dynastic periods, battles and invasion in 1897 it was proclaimed as Korean Empire under the China's Qing dynasty. In 1910 because of war between Russia and Japan, and under an unfair treaty Japan move its troop to Korea, which end up as full occupation. During the WWII, on August 6, 1945, US President Harry S. Truman ordered that a nuclear bomb with a blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 ton to be dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It immediately killed 80,000 people (Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 2009). Three days later, the second bomb was dropped over the Japanese city Nagasaki which forced Japan to announce its surrender. The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the beginning of the cold war. During this time, Soviet Union had been declared war on Japan, and after its surrender, Korea that was occupied by Japan now becomes a territory of the United States and Soviet Union. In 1948, as result of the cold war, The United States and The Soviet Union divided Korea in half using the 38th parallel to as a reference. The division results in two states North Korea dominated by Soviet Union and South Korea controlled by the United States. The Soviet Union supported the Kim II-sung as a leader for North Korea establishing a communist government. In 1950, North Korea declared war on South Korea in attempt to unify the states, The United Nations forces with more the 22 countries destroyed almost all building in North Korea; as a result, a demilitarized zone DMZ was created between North and South Korea (Worden, 2008). In 1955, the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung proclaimed a political ideology of self-reliance with three-year post-war reconstruction plan. In 1964, a nuclear research facility was established. In 1985, North Korea signed a treaty on the