ABSTRACT Periods of mutual enmity in US-North Korean relations are typically interrupted by more conciliatory gestures. How can the many twists and turns in this relationship be explained and hopefully overcome so that more long-lasting détente is accomplished? Drawing eclectically on realism and constructivism, we conclude that a nuclear deal should address not only North Korea’s interests in security and regime survival, but also its status concerns. Applying the same theories to the other part of the dyad – the US – we conclude that it may now have material interests in ameliorating the relationship, but that such a development requires US foreign policy discourse to cease depicting North Korea as “irrational” and “evil”.

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克服美朝敌意：折衷的 IR 方法的教训

摘要 美朝关系中相互敌对的时期通常会被更多的和解姿态打断。如何解释和克服这种关系中的许多曲折，从而实现更持久的缓和？结合现实主义和建构主义，我们得出结论，核协议不仅应解决朝鲜在安全和政权生存方面的利益，还应解决其地位问题。将相同的理论应用于二元组的另一部分——美国——我们得出结论，它现在可能在改善两国关系方面具有物质利益，但这种发展需要美国的外交政策话语停止将朝鲜描述为“非理性”和“非理性”。邪恶的”。