China's policy towards North Korea under Xi Jinping

Abstract

ABSTRACT With an obvious increase in the uncertainty of instability in the current world, the Korean Peninsula issue is an unprecedented situation that changes profoundly and indicates that its more than half a century security pattern is entering the eve of historic structural changes. The main driv-er of this change is how to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, whether to implement a policy, and how to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. This dissertation deals with China’s foreign policy on North Korea under Xi Jinping from 2013 to the present. I use primary document sources, speeches, statistics, interview, and news to analyze and explain the history of Chinese-Korean relations and about the main principles of the current Chinese foreign policy. I also studied the positions of the main international actors to-wards the Korean problem to explain these countries’ complex interest relationship. I examine the economic change after the start of Kim Jong-un’s regime and the Chinese-North Korean econom-ic exchange expressing the frontier trade with the statistics, as well as the main Chinese policy method on North Korea’s issues. In this paper, I attempt to study China’s interests and attitudes on the DPRK issues, as well as the other main actors involved, and try to find a solution to these issues.

ABSTRACT With an obvious increase in the uncertainty of instability in the current world, the Korean Peninsula issue is an unprecedented situation that changes profoundly and indicates that its more than half a century security pattern is entering the eve of historic structural changes. The main driv-er of this change is how to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, whether to implement a policy, and how to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. This dissertation deals with China’s foreign policy on North Korea under Xi Jinping from 2013 to the present. I use primary document sources, speeches, statistics, interview, and news to analyze and explain the history of Chinese-Korean relations and about the main principles of the current Chinese foreign policy. I also studied the positions of the main international actors to-wards the Korean problem to explain these countries’ complex interest relationship. I examine the economic change after the start of Kim Jong-un’s regime and the Chinese-North Korean econom-ic exchange expressing the frontier trade with the statistics, as well as the main Chinese policy method on North Korea’s issues. In this paper, I attempt to study China’s interests and attitudes on the DPRK issues, as well as the other main actors involved, and try to find a solution to these issues.