A permanência dos conflitos entre Coreia do Norte e Coreia do Sul.

Abstract

North Korea, especially after Kim Jong Un comes to power, has been increasingly hostile, conducting nuclear tests and launching ballistic missiles more frequently, bringing instability to the region. The present study aims to find out the reasons for the permanence of the tensions between North Korea and South Korea that result in the impossibility of signing an effective and permanent peace treaty, for this purpose, a historical contextualization of both countries and their relations since the division of the Korean peninsula is made, an analysis is also made of the geopolitical dynamics and international relations of these countries, China and the United States of America, who are directly involved in the situation. This study was conducted an analysis regarding the North Korean nuclear program, South Korean economic development, the importance of China in the Korean Peninsula and the Korean War. To understand the attitudes of countries in this situation of instability and the North Korean threat, the realist theory was used. The central hypothesis of the work is that with North Korea being willing to maintain its nuclear program as a bargaining tool for international aid and as a way to maintain sovereignty before the international system, keeping the instability in the region, there is no possibility to establish a definitive peace agreement.