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This paper examines the feasible policy options of the United States and Republicof Korea alliance in coping with the current DPRK nuclear crisis. North Korea’sthird nuclear weapon experiment with several medium- and long-range missile testfirings pose a security threat to South Korea. In March 2013, the Central Committee ofthe Workers’ Party adopted a new strategy of simultaneously building up the economyand nuclear capability. As a non-nuclear power, South Korea faces difficulty indeveloping effective countermeasures against the nuclear threat from the North. Although the United States has confirmed its commitment to defending SouthKorea, Seoul cannot dispel its own anxiety of a potential peril of nuclear attackfrom the North. This paper investigates what feasible policy options are availableto the U.S.-ROK alliance in the face of the DPRK’s nuclear threat.
