THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED STATES DEFENSE POLICY TO RESPOND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH KOREA’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (2009 – 2017)

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.