Political relations of the DPRK
with the United States

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North Korea’s bomb: Catch-22?
By Aidan Foster-Carter, Asia Times, 30 October 2002. North Korea admits it has a covert nuclear program. The Foreign Ministry insisted that the DPRK was entitled to possess not only nuclear weapon but any type of weapon more powerful than that. Kim Jong-il will have to choose between his nukes and his economy. It could be they don't have a policy or are arguing furiously over which path to take.
North Korea is Asking for Too Much in the Nuclear Crisis—Or is It?
By Anthony DiFilippo, Foreign Policy in Focus,, 15 November 2002. Pyongyang is asking Washington to drop its hostile and aggressive policy, to recognize its sovereignty and to not impede the development of its economy. She is interested in signing a non-aggression treaty with Washington—a small price to pay to keep her party to the Agreed Framework and ultimately to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
North Korea Warns ‘Sanctions Mean a War’
By Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, Tuesday 7 January 2003. North Korea today issued a warning of unrestrained war in the event that the U.S. and its allies impose economic sanctions to force the isolated country to halt work at a nuclear reactor capable of producing atomic weapons.
U.S. forced North Korea’s hand
By Gavan McCormack, Pacific News Service, 13 January 2003. It was the U.S. which first voided a Geneva agreement to keep nuclear weapons capability out of North Korean hands. Now, after living under threat —at times explicit—of U.S. nuclear attack, and after several of its recent, conciliatory moves were rejected, North Korea is speaking the only language Washington seems to recognize—that of military might.
U.S. Criticized for Halting N. Korea Aid
By Doug Struck, Washington Post, Sunday 19 January 2003. Analysts Say Food Shipments Are Being Used as Political Tool in Nuclear Crisis. The U.S. delivered its last shipment of grain to North Korea on Dec. 10 and has imposed strict conditions for resuming food aid, leading analysts to conclude that Washington is using hunger as a weapon in its confrontation with North Korea over nuclear weapons.