Product Description: A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest threats to the United States. Much of this fear is focused on North Korea and Iran, two "rogue states" that have violated nonproliferation rules and engaged in provocative actions, including nuclear and ballistic missile tests...read more

Product Description: Despite near-universal opposition to North Korea's moves to acquire nuclear weapons, Pyongyang is determined to succeed. It is only a matter of time before the North Koreans are able to combine their extant nuclear weapons capabilities with a viable delivery system...read more

Product Description: Examines how and why nations have persuaded North Korea to cooperate on topics such as nuclear policy.

Product Description: President George W. Bush had pinned North Korea to an "axis of evil" but then neglected Pyongyang until it tested a nuclear device. Would the new administration make similar mistakes? When the Clinton White House prepared to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities, private citizen Jimmy Carter mediated to avert war and set the stage for a deal freezing North Korea's plutonium production...read more

Meltdown is the riveting inside account of an American diplomatic disasterWhen George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was frozen. Kim Jong-Il had signaled to the outgoing Clinton administration he was ready to negotiate an end to his missile program. Today, North Korea has become a full-fledged nuclear power, with enough fissile material to stage an underground test in 2006, manufacture as many as ten more warheads, and—in the worst-case scenario—provide nuclear material to rogue states or terrorist groups. How did the United States fail to prevent a long-standing adversary like North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons?Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with key players in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing, including Colin Powell, John Bolton, and ex-Korean president Kim Dae-jung, as well as insights gained during fourteen trips to Pyongyang, longtime CNN correspondent and North Korea expert Mike Chinoy provides a blow-by-blow account that takes readers behind the scenes of secret diplomatic meetings, disputed intelligence reports, and Washington turf battles as well as inside the mysterious world of North Korea. Meltdown shows how the U.S. refusal to engage in serious diplomacy spurred Kim Jong Il to stage his nuclear breakout, and provides a wealth of new material about the subsequent reversal of course that led the Bush administration to abandon confrontation in the hope of negotiating an end to the nuclear crisis.Chinoy has produced a gripping account of one of America's longest-running, most volatile foreign policy crises that explains why North Korea remains a danger today—and why it didn't have to be this way.

Questions whether North Korea is really a threat to the West and argues that the EU can peacefully prevent the country from pursuing Nuclear weapons. This book shows that North Korea's actions stem from fear of the US and Japan.

'Through interviews, gives a behind-the-scenes look at negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Offering multiple perspectives on the second Korean nuclear crisis, provides a window of understanding on the historical, geopolitical, and securityconcerns at play on the peninsula since 2002, paying special attention to China's dealings with North Korea'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The classic national security concerns on the Korean peninsula —nuclear proliferation and the production, sale, and use of weapons of mass destruction —cannot be addressed without also considering the implications and interrelationship of the "human" security issues of food, poverty and, perhaps more controversially, freedom...read more

'Offers an insider's analysis of developments on the Korean peninsula and how North Korea was able to develop nuclear weapons. Provides a first-hand account of how the Six-Party Talks were initiated, with a step-by-step review of each round of negotiations, detailing the national interests of the key players'--Provided by publisher.

The United States is the mightiest nation in history, yet North Korea has challenged the superpower. This book discusses the extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions. It analyses that North Korea has become a threat to America and proposes a solution to defuse the standoff.

Product Description: In 2003, the international community witnessed a nuclear showdown with North Korea for the second time since 1993. Actually, it started in October of 2002 with Pyongyang's admission of a secret uranium enrichment program and climaxed in North Korea's announcement of its withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on January 10, 2003, potentially triggering another crisis on the Korean peninsula...read more