This book delivers an in-depth analysis of the US-DPRK Peace Treaty which will be concluded as a final result of the Korean Peninsula peace process that is currently ongoing. Since North Korea launched its nuclear weapons development program in the early 1990s, the Korean peninsula has become a critical point of global politics along with the Sino-American (G2) hegemonic competition. The US-DPRK Peace Treaty is the key to the denuclearization and de jure peace on the peninsula as well as Northeast Asia. Different from the comprehensive peace treaty between the four parties (US, China, and the two Koreas) already proposed for the past few years, the book suggests a 'bilateral' approach to the agreement between the US and the DPRK, which will trigger the peace as a system considering the US's practices in this regard after 1783. Such a challenging and provocative method provides deeper understanding of the legal and political circumstances for the expected US-DPRK Peace Treaty. Thebook will navigate scholars, practitioners, and students towards terminating the 1953 Armistice, establishing nuclear peace as well as a rapprochement between the two countries. In practice, it will be a useful guideline for the conflicting parties in the various parts of the globe to adopt peace treaties in the twenty-first century.

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Eric Yong Joong Lee is President of YIJUN Institute of International Law as well as Professor of International Law at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. He is also High and Foreign Expert of State One Thousand Talent Plan of China teaching and researching at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. He obtained his A.B. (political science) and M.P.A. (public policy) from the University of Washington and Seoul National University, respectively. He continued to study international law at Leiden University to complete his LL.M. and completed his Dr.iur. under the supervision of Professor Peter Malanczuk at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He, an analyst of international law based on international relations, is an expert on international organization, international dispute settlement, and inter-Korean relations. His current academic interests focus on the Korean Peninsula peace process, transnational cultural diplomacy, global supply chain of Covid-19 vaccine, etc. Ridoan Karim is a lecturer of law at Monash University-Malaysia. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Law by the University of Malaya. Prior to joining University of Malaya as Doctoral Researcher, he served as a Lecturer at the School of Business Administration of East Delta University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. He earned his Master of Comparative Laws (MCL) degree from International Islamic University Malaysia. His areas of expertise are technology and law, comparative law, data protection and privacy, human rights, and energy regulations.