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Reasons for the different diplomatic strategies used

The previous part dealt with the diplomatic strategies used by the U.S., while this part will go into the reason behind the diplomatic strategies used respectively in the two countries, and describe some differences and similarities in the separate cases.
As the facts describes in previous parts, the U.S. has, with the assistance of the UN Security Council, during the last decades stated four resolutions obtaining sanctions against not only the government of Iran, but also against the whole Iranian society. Towards North Korea there has only been one resolution containing sanctions against the country.
In order to understand the diplomatic strategies used by the United States in North Korea and Iran it is vital to know some fundamental differences between the two countries. For starters, Iran has crude oil, lots of crude oil. This gives the country a certain independence and power position towards the U.S. and the rest of the world. North Korea on the other hand is an extremely poor country suffering from starvation and scares natural resources, which inevitably creates a dependency for North Korea towards the rest of the world.30
The most important difference would be that Iran has a nuclear program and North Korea has nuclear weapons. There are also significant differences in the power structure of the two countries. Iran is governed by a radical Islamic government, while North Korea has a communistic government.
Equally important, though, Iran is in a far stronger position to press for its terms than North Korea is. North Korea is an economic basket case with nuclear weapons, and as mentioned above, Iran doesn’t yet have nuclear weapons, but it is one of the world’s top five oil exporters, and its regional influence has grown exponentially as a result of the removal of two of its key enemies, Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan.31
Despite concerns over its transparency and compliance with all requirements of the international monitoring system, Iran is not currently accused by the UN of maintaining a nuclear-weapons program, as they are by the U.S. It remains within the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty; the Security Council’s major concern is that Iran’s defiance of demands over its uranium enrichment program may be a sign that they are assembling the means to build nuclear weapons. North Ko rea, on the contrary, walked out of the NPT and tested a nuclear weapon, leaving no doubt over its capacity or intent.32
Unlike North Korea’s hermit kingdom, Iran is an integral part of the world economy as its fourth largest supplier of oil, with much of its output consumed by China, India and Japan. Most of the international community will view comprehensive sanctions against Iran as unthinkable in light of the impact they would have on global oil prices, and therefore on the global economy as a whole. As stated above, geography is an important aspect of U.S. relations with the two countries. North Korea is of no immediate geographical importance to the United States, While Iran has an advantage that can influence U.S. prospects in difficult conflict zones, i.e., Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran will also be encouraged by the similarities between the two cases, the fact that military action is widely seen as carrying risks that outweigh benefits in each case. Seeing that the U.S. and its allies
have only managed to muster support for sanctions by diluting them to the point of being largely symbolic, because of opposition by key Security Council players such as Russia and China.
The experience from the so-called six-party talks also underlines the difficulty of using sanctions as a negotiating tactic: North Korea used the revived six-party process to talk not about the nuclear issue, but about sanctions. Similarly, Iran, rather than buckle to the demands by the U.S. and the rest of the international community, may be inclined instead to test Washington’s diplomatic muscles.

1 Introduction
1.1 Problem
1.2 Aim and questions
1.3 Method.
2 Background.
2.1 Definition of Diplomacy.
2.2 Coercive diplomacy
2.3 Different types of sanctions
2.4 Current political situation in the U.S.
2.5 Current political situation in Iran
2.6 Current political situation in North Korea .
3 Result 
3.1 US diplomatic strategies towards Iran 1950-2000
3.2 Bush diplomacy against Iran
3.3 U.S. diplomatic strategies against North Korea
3.4 Bush diplomacy against North Korea
3.5 Reasons for the different diplomatic strategies used
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion 
6 Appendix.
References

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