North Korea said in January 2019 that it was exploring ways to engage the human rights issue. This was a much welcomed announcement because the issue must be addressed in order for the two countries to reach a formal, comprehensive peace agreement and the lifting or easing of unilateral sanctions. This study utilizes framing as an analytical tool to examine how the North Korean human rights discourse is framed in the United States for the purpose of identifying the salient rights‐based issues covered in two traditional media outlets, namely, the Washington Post and New York Times. Next, it reframes the discourse using a coding schema based on the convergence of the human rights, human security, and non‐traditional security discourses. A reframing of the discourse highlights how the universalist–particularist debate in the traditional rights‐based literature masks the underlying issues of the rights problem. A combination of the traditional rights‐based discourse and the masking of the issues contributes to a disconnect in the way in which North Korea has been engaged in the past. Therefore, a reframing of the discourse using the convergence of the human rights, human security, and non‐traditional security discourses could open new pathways for engagement.

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关于与朝鲜互动的思考：关于2001至2017年间《华盛顿邮报》和《纽约时报》美国人权公开话语框架的研究

朝鲜于2019年1月表示，正在探索解决人权问题的方法。这是一个非常受欢迎的宣布，因为必须解决这个问题，以便两国达成正式，全面的和平协议，并取消或放松单方面制裁。这项研究利用框架作为分析工具，研究了北朝鲜在美国的人权话语框架，目的是确定《华盛顿邮报》和《纽约时报》这两个传统媒体所报道的基于权利的突出问题。。接下来，它使用基于人权，人类安全和非传统安全话语融合的编码模式来重新构架话语。对话语的重新阐述突显了传统基于权利的文献中的普遍主义者-特别主义者的辩论如何掩盖了权利问题的根本问题。传统的基于权利的话语和对问题的掩盖相结合，导致朝鲜过去的参与方式脱节。因此，利用人权，人类安全和非传统安全话语的融合对话语进行重新构架，可以开辟新的参与途径。