author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorThe often-used description in the American mainstream media and geopolitical literature of “North Korea’s nuclear aggression” is misleading. I argue in the first section that Pyongyang’s nuclear strategy has been significantly shaped by the perceived U.S. nuclear existential threat since the early 1950s, portending a quest for a self-reliant nuclear deterrent for the DPRK. The shifting role and impact of U.S.-China competition in the course of the first and second U.S.-DPRK nuclear standoffs is explored as background for examining, in the second section, an intensified nuclear confrontation in the first half of 2017. The concluding section considers common-security engagement in charting an alternative pathway toward establishing a working peace system on the Korean peninsula.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/samuel-s-kim/us-china-competition-over-nuclear-north-koreahttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/samuel-s-kim/us-china-competition-over-nuclear-north-koreaMon, 10 Jul 2017 13:42:00 GMT