Leveraging towards restraint: nuclear hedging and North Korea's shifting reference points during the agreed framework and the Six-Party talks/
Soul Park and Kimberly Peh
- 2020
The emergence of new nuclear aspirants has posed a great threat to the post-Cold War global non-proliferation regime. These states have adopted a nuclear hedging strategy that has been deemed both strategically risky and politically difficult to maintain. Yet, hedging has not automatically resulted in nuclearisation. Hence a study was conducted based on North Korea's nuclear policies throughout the 1990s and 2000s.