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The proliferation of weapons and weapons technology threatens to fuel instabilities in other parts of the world. North Korea has openly and directly challenged the international community by ignoring UN Security Council decisions and other global norms and rules.

But the conflict remains explosive even below the threshold of open violence. Given the involvement of four nuclear weapon possessors, the use of nuclear weapons cannot be ruled out. The risk of military escalation is enormous. The conflict over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction programmes remains one of the most dangerous and complex crises in the world, even after the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Head of State Kim Jong Un in Singapore on 12 June 2018. Addressing the set of problems subsumed under the term “North Korea conflict” in such a way as to avoid war, consolidate global order structures, and improve the situation of the people in North Korea requires staying power and can only lead to success one step at a time.įacets of the North Korea Conflict: Actors, Problems and Europe’s Interests Europe can and should work to ensure that North Korea is treated as a challenge to global gov­ernance. In addition, within these conflicts, security policy, human rights policy and economic policy have great impact on each other.įor Germany and Europe, finding a peaceful solution to the conflict – or at least preventing military escalation – is key. Grouped around this are other conflicts characterised by clashes of interests between China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea and the USA. The conflict is centred on the unresolved tense relationship between North Korea and the USA, and in particular the issue of nuclear weapons possession. Even after the summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Head of State Kim Jong Un in Singapore on 12 June 2018, the crisis surrounding North Korea’s nuclear programme and weapons of mass destruction programme remains one of the most dangerous and complex in the world.