Abstract (eng)
The Security Dilemma on the Korean Peninsula has been existing for decades, and remains unsolved due to the highly complex geopolitical situation surrounding it. Furthermore, the Korean Peninsula is one of the focal points of Sino-US rivalry in the Asia-Pacific region, and plays a highly important role in the regional balance of power. Therefore, shifts on the stage of international politics often have immediate effects on the political situation upon the Korean Peninsula and vice versa. Consequently, it makes sense to examine the security dilemma on the Korean Peninsula in a broader political context, which this paper aims to do so by analyzing the security predicament in the past as well as previous attempts to solve it within the interplay of Sino-US relations. This was done by taking an interdisciplinary approach from an international law/political science perspective, by first focusing on the research question of how to deal with a nuclear rogue state within a complex security environment. Then the interests of the most influential stakeholders in the region were examined and evaluated, with a concluding chapter concerning the recent Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore. By doing so, this paper found that past and also current policy approaches towards North Korea have been/are insufficient meaning that a new approach is required.