This study sets out to discover two hitherto unexplored areas entrenched in US foreign assistance to North Korea. First, it aims to conduct the complete enumeration of US aid projects targeting North Korea for two decades, from 1996 to 2016. A full coverage of humanitarian relations between the United States and North Korea contributes to tracing its evolving trajectories in a complete form. The second issue involves a more ambitious mission, intending to dig into Washington's strategic objectives which have been veiled under the philanthropic auspice of humanitarian aid. Given that donors always react sensitively to North Korea's nuclear threats, Washington exerted strategic control over the release of humanitarian assistance along with Pyongyang's conformity with aid conditionality. Considering the donor's national interest was hidden in humanitarianism, the study reveals not only whether humanitarian assistance has deviated from its main mission of emergency relief, but also which factor led to such a deviation and advanced the democracy aid framework as a new principle of reshuffling the usage of humanitarian assistance. Analyzing its moving frontier – from humanitarian relief to democracy aid – should be at the center of identifying the securitization process of US foreign assistance to North Korea.

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从人道主义救济到民主援助：1996年至2016年美国对朝鲜的对外援助*

这项研究着眼于发现两个迄今尚未获得美国对朝鲜外国援助的根深蒂固的地区。首先，它旨在对从1996年到2016年的针对朝鲜的美国援助项目进行完整的枚举。这是对美国和朝鲜之间人道主义关系的全面报道，有助于以一种完整的形式追踪其演变的轨迹。第二个问题涉及一个更雄心勃勃的任务，目的是挖掘华盛顿在人道主义援助的慈善赞助下蒙蔽的战略目标。鉴于捐助国总是对朝鲜的核威胁作出敏感反应，因此华盛顿对释放人道主义援助以及平壤是否符合援助条件施加了战略控制。考虑捐助者的 该国的国家利益隐藏在人道主义中，该研究不仅揭示了人道主义援助是否偏离了其紧急救济的主要任务，而且还揭示了导致这种偏离的因素，并推动了民主援助框架，将其作为重新使用联合国援助的新原则。人道主义援助。分析其从人道主义救济到民主援助的发展前沿，应成为确定美国对朝鲜外国援助的证券化过程的中心。