[20200429]IF10246_美朝关系.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 29, 2020U.S.-North Korea RelationsNorth Korea has posed one of the most persistent U.S. foreign policy challenges of the post-Cold War period. Having made advances in its nuclear and missile capabilities under its leader, Kim Jong-un, North Korea has evolved into a grave security threat to the United States. The United States and North Korea (officially known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or DPRK) began denuclearization talks in 2018, but those negotiations essentially have been frozen since February 2019, with little apparent prospect for a breakthrough. Meanwhile, North Korea simultaneously has continued to develop its nuclear and missile capabilities. Other U.S. concerns include North Koreas cyberspace activities, conventional military capabilities, egregious human rights violations, international terrorism, and illicit activities such as money laundering and smuggling. Source: Map generated by CRS using Department of State Boundaries (2011); Esri (2014); DeLorme (2014). Internal Situation Kim Jong-un became DPRK leader in 2011, succeeding his father and becoming the third generation of the Kim dynasty to rule. After a