Meltdown - The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Six year after a smiling Kim Jong-II assured U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that he would give up his missile program, North Korea has a nuclear arsenal believed to be capable of striking the continental United States. How did the United States fail to prevent a long-time adversary like North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? Veteran reporter and North Korean expert Mike Chinoy tells a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes, blow-by-blow account of an American foreign policy disaster. Using interviews with Colin Powell, John Bolton, ex-Korean president Kim Dae-jung and dozens of other key players, Chinoy shows how the erosion of the U.S. position in Asia enabled North Korea to stage its nuclear breakout. This is above all a story of a divided Bush administration, which offers a case study of how foreign policy driven ideology has undermined, rather than strengthened, American security...