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Berg, Rachel (A.C.) van den (2015)

Handling a Hermit Kingdom: The EU and U.S. Policies of Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Toward North Korea

Bachelor thesis | Koreastudies (BA)

North Korea, and especially North Korea-U.S. relations, has been a point of attention to the international community for many years now. First active contact between North Korea and the international community was made during the Arduous March in 1995, when North Korea asked for humanitarian aid. Many of the diplomatic relations that were established between North Korea and other countries since then were halted due to the nuclear crisis in 2002. An exception was the EU, which kept providing humanitarian aid to North Korea. In this thesis, I compare the EU and U.S. policies on human rights and humanitarian aid in the mid 1990s and the early 2000s, in order to see both how the policies of the two parties differ from each other and how the policies differ in these two different time periods.

North Korea

International Relations

U.S.-DPRK

EU-DPRK

U.S. policy

EU policy

human rights

humanitarian aid

Author

Berg, Rachel (A.C.) van den

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Korean Studies

Supervisors

Park-Kang, Sung-Ju

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en