DPRK’s missile and nuclear programs are not only a serious threat to South Korea and Japan but possibly to the US •To be sure, the DPRK was labelled as an “axis of evil” in President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address •With DPRK’s growing nuclear power, various diplomatic approaches had been used by the international community to limit its nuclear program to peaceful power generation and encourage it to take part in international treaties like the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)