TY - BOOK AU - TAE HWAN Kwak TI - Resolving the North Korean nuclear issue through the six-party process: : a creative formula PY - 2006/// KW - KOREA KW - SIX PARTY TALKS KW - NUCLEAR N2 - This article analyses and evaluates the six party talks in detail viewing them as a mechanism providing a multilateral framework for resolving the North Korean nuclear issue. It has three specific goals. First, to evaluate the fourth and fifth rounds of the six party talks in terms of a multilateral framework for resolving the nuclear issue. Second, to take a closer look at U.S financial sanctions against North Korea and the positions concerned party. Third, to make policy recommendations for implementing the 9.19 joint statement to realise a denuclearized Korean peninsula ER -