Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea by Wit, Joel S.
Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea by Wit, Joel S.

Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea

A behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear capabilities have not worked For...
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Author: Joel S. Wit
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Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea by Wit, Joel S.

Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea

$58.53
Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea by Wit, Joel S.

Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea

$58.53
Author: Joel S. Wit
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear capabilities have not worked

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. 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's contacts in Pyongyang, this book chronicles how six American presidents have approached the problem of North Korea.

Wit points to Barack Obama and Donald Trump as the two presidents most responsible for the failure to halt North Korea's 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's future by exploring diplomacy or, failing that, by building a nuclear arsenal.

Author: Joel S. Wit
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.30w x 1.81d
ISBN: 9780300278774


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025

About the Author
Joel S. Wit is a distinguished fellow in Asian Security Studies at the Henry L. Stimson Center and a former US State Department official. He is the coauthor of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis. He lives in Washington, DC.
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