Explaining North Korean Nuclear Weapons Motivations: Constructivism, Liberalism, and Realism

• Main Author: Nah, Liang Tuang
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: North Korea; nuclear disarmament
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82181; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41161; http://search.proquest.com/openview/15b2662962d6c3b502705aa80b7055f0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article explains that key to understanding North Korean nuclear weapons motivations is the application of the explanatory frameworks of constructivism, liberalism, and realism to different time periods in North Korea: 1964 to 1994 (realism), 1991 to 2007 (liberalism), and 1991, 1994, and 2011 (...