The Korean Odyssey

*Why the U.S. strategy for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula has failed over the past 30 years? ⓒ iStock   Il Young Jeong Research Professor_Institute of Social Sciences_Sogang University It has been 30 years since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) special inspection in 1992 that first raised suspicions about North Korea's nuclear development. Efforts have been made to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula over the past 30 years, but ultimately we have failed to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. This article attempts to analyze why the U.S. strategy for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula has failed over the past 30 years.   The United States has failed to normalize US-DPRK relations Despite the end of the Cold War, one of the reasons why the Korean Peninsula remains stuck in Cold War is that we have yet to successfully normalize relations between North Korea and the United States. North Korea has constantly provoked and denounced the United States