Abstract:
Ari Nurahman, International Relations 2014, President University
Thesis Title: “The Implementation of United States Defense Policy to Respond
the Development of North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (2009 – 2017)”
The dynamic of political developments-international security apparently
could not be separated from the question of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
This type of weaponry in addition to owned by the Group of developed countries,
also owned by some developing countries, namely North Korea. North Korea
WMD development in the period of 2009-2017 then leads to a variety of impacts.
The perception that North Korea WMD is threat to the United States. In the United
States Defense policy in the era of George w. Bush to Barack Obama the country
has several interests including the handling of terrorism until the handling of WMD.
There are international political constellations in the State the owner of WMD that
became United States ally, and there are countries that are opposite, one is North
Korea. This is what later became a threat to the United States.
This study discusses the implementation of United States defense policy
respond the development of North Korea’s WMD 2009-2017. This research uses a
number of approaches, namely, the theory of the defense policy, theory of threats
perception, as well as the concept of application of policy. While the methodology
used is descriptive qualitative to data collection and library research techniques.
North Korea became one of the world's countries that have nuclear. North
Korea became one of the world's countries that have nuclear then became threat to
United States interests in sovereignty, but also with regard to the interests of
countries that had become a close ally of the United States, namely South Korea
and Japan. For that, the United States seeks to implement policies in the context of
the internal and external. Thus, the United States seeks to strengthen the capacity
of the defense and military field. A variety of these efforts is the policy of the United
States for a nuclear deal with North Korea that is complete will be discussed on the
following research.
