U.S.-North Korea negotiations / imprinting effect and stigma effect

Thinking about the U.S.-North Korea negotiations, Trump’s presidency was a good time for the U.S. and North Korea. The businessman-turned president values real profits rather than principles, and sometimes throws his surroundings into confusion with capriciousness. However, he tends not to imprint or stigmatize his opponent because of his tendency to seek real profits. Therefore, there was a chance to start each other’s relationship at zero base. Around President Trump, there were ministers and deputy minister who were not biased.

Bolton, a former hardliner on the Trump team, was a figure from the Cold War era. He was imprinted with hostility toward communism and stigmatized North Korea a very hostile opponent. He deserved it because he lived during the Vietnam War and during Reagan’s presidency.

 

Under Kim Jong-il, North Korea had no intention of reform. In order to solve the North Korean problem at that time, it must have an outside orientation, which gradually became internal cohesion. The world of Kim Jong-il’s education and thinking had a narrow foundation. He was unable to cope with the transition from the Cold War to the era of globalization. Kim Jong-il imprinted the world surrounding North Korea as a battlefield, when North Korea was branded a terrorist state.

I wonder about the nature of Biden’s administration, which will soon enter the U.S.There is a possibility that the United States will form a blind cabinet that does not leave room for negotiations with North Korea. But it’s not desirable.

 

Chairman Kim Jong Un, who received Western-style education without living in the harsh Cold War era, is not expected to disturb his will to reform by imprinting or stigmatizing effects.