The Foreign Service Journal, December 2003

n explaining why it is seeking to develop a nuclear deterrent, North Korea points to the U.S. National Security Doctrine of Sept. 20, 2002, and says that it does not want to be “another Iraq,” vulnerable to a U.S. pre-emptive strike. To begin a process of negotiating an end to its nuclear weapons program, Pyongyang declares, the United States would have to join with North Korea in a mutual pledge not to use force of any kind against each other. Negotiating such a pledge will not be easy. In October, President Bush opened the door to negotiations by drop- D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 47 F O C U S O N W O R L D E N E R G Y I G AS P IPELINES AND THE N ORTH K OREAN N UCLEAR C RISIS Josh Dorman T HE KEY TO RESOLVING THE N ORTH K OREAN CRISIS MAY BE A NEW AGREEMENT COMBINING A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE WITH A SCALED - DOWN NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM . B Y S ELIG S. H ARRISON