Historical and geopolitical basis of emergence of the nuclear program of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea

Abstract

The article is devouted to the emergence of reasons and prerequisites of the DPRK’s nuclear program.From middle of  the XX century the Korean peninsula is the territory of the conflict and a zone of escalation of the relations in AsiaPacific region. Certainly, precedent of current situation was the Korean war of 1950-1953, which led subsequently to  final split of once uniform country on two competing states. Political, economical, ideological fight between USSR and  USA after war in Korea, when they were separated is written in the work. Besides, the major factor attracting attention  of the international community to the situation on the Korean peninsula is the nuclear program of North Korea, served as the reason of numerous nuclear crises, and playing role of destabilizing factor of securitysystem inAsia-Pacific region throughout long time