How America Failed to Disarm North Korea: Implications for the Future

For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea’s attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Based on more than 300 interviews with officials in Washington, Seoul and Beijing, as well as his own encounters with North Korean government officials over two decades, Joel Wit’s new book, Flashpoint: The Inside Story of How America Failed to Disarm North Korea, tells the up until now untold story of how six American presidents failed to stop Pyongyang. The book uncovers the policy debates, diplomatic gambits, military planning and covert operations that shaped the struggle to halt North Korea’s Manhattan project. He points to Barack Obama and Donald Trump as the two presidents most responsible for that failure. As a result, the United States is now faced with the threat of North Korea’s missiles that  can  threaten its cities and northeast Asia is on the verge of a nuclear arms race.

Flashpoint: The Inside Story of How America Failed to Disarm North Korea will be available for pre-order on October 28.