Trump’s Administration and Persistent Missile Test of North Korea: Impact on World Politics
Publication Date: 19/06/2020
Author(s): Sheriff Ghali Ibrahim, Farouk Ibrahim Bibi-Farouk , Bode-Ajayi Oluwasegun.
Volume/Issue: Volume 3 , Issue 2 (2020)
Abstract:
The paper examines the nexus between the United States and Korean Missiles test which has continued to threaten peace in the North and East-Asian regions. Using the qualitative research as supported by conflict theory, findings show that, the Trump administration wanted to use China to remote-control North Korea, but he later discovered that he was wrong. The paper concludes that since Trump has criticised Obama for doing so over Syrian chemical weapons and then failing to carry out such red-line threat, President Trump may feel he can hardly afford the opprobrium that would follow should he fail to respond in this case. Although all attentions now are on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump showed that he is not likely to go to war with the limited strike that killed the Iranian military commander Sulaymani. The paper recommends the United States should continue to follow diplomatic path and engaging the international community as in the six party talks, to resolve the Korean Nuclear issue; the U.S. should desist in conducting such joint military drills with Japan and South Korea which continues to threaten the North and; the United Nations should not support the U.S. in imposing sanctions on North Korea, but find a better way of denuclearization.
