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Chang, Gordon G.

Nuclear showdown : North Korea takes on the world / Gordon G. Chang.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, ©2006.

xxii, 327 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Examines the origins, history, international implications, extent, and potential solutions to the nuclear threat of the rogue state of North Korea and its tyrannical leader Kim Jong Il.

Nuclear weapons -- Korea (North)

World politics -- 21st century.

Nuclear nonproliferation -- Korea (North)

Korea (North) -- Military policy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-307) and index.

Foreword. North Korea takes the world backward -- 1. Ku Klux Korea : America creates a renegade nation -- 2. An arsenal of ambitions : can North Korea be peacefully disarmed? -- 3. The Pygmalion of Pyongyang : North Korea tries reform and creates geopolitical crisis -- 4. Collapse perhaps? : "oppressed" North Koreans are remaking their society -- 5. Housewives for nuclear terror : Seoul becomes Pyongyang's ally -- 6. Sympathy from the devil : China stands behind Kim's Korea -- 7. Tokyo, target for termination : Japan's relations with Asia complicate the nuclear talks -- 8. Aid charade : How the world helps North Korea build nuclear weapons -- 9. Flirting with unspeakable evil : should the world engage Pyongyang to end a planetary showdown? -- 10. The end of American primacy : the inevitable consequences of irreversible decline -- 11. Civilization's last weapon : nuclear arms fragment global stability -- 12. Last exit before the dark ages : what the world should do now -- Epilogue. Plutonium pâté.

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