North Korea and the End of the Post-Cold War World

Recent agreements with the United States and summits in Seoul have focused on Pyongyang's possession and use of weapons of mass destruction. This is a victory of North Korean foreign policy, which has shifted the agenda from the question of North Korean survival to North Korean aggression. North Korea has no intention of using its weapons. It is much more interested in emerging from isolation into closer relations with Moscow and Beijing. Washington, Seoul and Tokyo are all missing the meaning of North Korean behavior.