“…Such partisanship has continued and even increased since the end of the Cold War (Bond & Fleisher, 1990;McCormick & Wittkopf, 1990;Meernik, 1993;Sinclair, 1993;Rohde, 1994, Cooper & Young, 1997McCormick, Wittkopf, & Danna, 1997;Carter, 1998;Wittkopf, & McCormick, 1998;Pleisher, Bond, Krutz, & Hanna, 2000;Delaet, Rowling, & Scott, 2005;Pfiffner, 2006;DeLaet & Scott, 2006). Such partisan politics may facilitate or hinder the different choices in U.S. policy toward North Korea.…”