Disarming Strangers

In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to South Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic initiative by former President Jimmy Carter and others to reverse the dangerous American course and open the way to a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear crisis. Few Americans know the full details behind this story or perhaps realize the devastating impact it could have had on the nation's post-Cold War foreign policy. In this lively and authoritative book, Leon Sigal offers an inside look at how the Korean nuclear crisis originated, escalated, and was ultimately diffused.

First sentence: THE TROUBLE with American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War is that the United States has been unwilling to use military force, or so the prevailing orthodoxy goes.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Editions

5

Pages

336

ISBN

9780691010069

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