{"product_id":"fallout-the-inside-story-of-americas-failure-to-disarm-north-korea","title":"Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea‚Äôs nuclear capabilities have not worked\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea‚Äôs attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official, takes readers to the front lines of nuclear negotiations and to fierce policy debates and secret diplomatic gambits, recounting how perilously close the United States and North Korea have come, on various occasions, to nuclear confrontation. Based on more than three hundred interviews with officials in Washington, Beijing, and Seoul, as well as with the author‚Äôs contacts in Pyongyang, this book chronicles how six American presidents have approached the problem of North Korea.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Wit points to Barack Obama and Donald Trump as the two presidents most responsible for the failure to halt North Korea‚Äôs march to build a nuclear arsenal, since it was under their successive tenures that Pyongyang acquired the ability to threaten every city in North America. Wit also offers an unparalleled portrait of Kim Jong Un that refutes his caricature as impulsive and illogical. Like his father and his grandfather, Kim is a ruthless despot but also a canny and informed negotiator determined to secure his dictatorship‚Äôs future by exploring diplomacy or, failing that, by building a nuclear arsenal.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548210729245,"sku":"9780300278774","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780300278774.jpg?v=1761675889","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/fallout-the-inside-story-of-americas-failure-to-disarm-north-korea","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}