North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order

"Thoughtful, well-argued, judiciously structured, elegantly written and empirically well-supported, Howell makes an innovative contribution by introducing the concept of ""strategic delinquency"" to explore how North Korea has sought to use a three-fold pattern of actions, including provocations, norm-transgression, and deception, to advance its long-term goal of becoming a de-facto nuclear power. * John Nilsson-Wright, Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge and Korea Foundation Korea Fellow and Senior Fellow for Northeast Asia, Chatham House, London * Drawing on interviews and documentary evidence, Edward Howell provides a sober and sobering account of the cumulative failures of international diplomacy to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. He shows that not only has North Korea's delinquency benefitted its illicit weapons programmes but that, through the regime-state's pursuit of status, it also threatens to undermine the established principles of global nuclear order. I recommend North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order as a clear introduction for anyone new to the subject matter, and as a source of new insight for those for whom these issues are already painfully familiar. * Alastair Morgan CMG, Former British Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London. * In North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order, a sober study of Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War,...Howell neatly sums up in his subtitle the lesson Kim has learnt from his first decade in power: ""bad behaviour pays"" * Katie Stallard, TLS * This excellent book makes a unique contribution to the literature on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The issue has attracted a lot of scholarly attention since North Korea acquired the capability to hit the continental United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile in 2017. * Choice *"