North Korea, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office

""A well-informed look at the arms control establishment's total, serial failure, as with Iran, to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons development. Fred Fleitz shows how one of the world's most backward regimes has leveraged American weaknesses in doctrine, strategy, intelligence analysis, and policy, and exploited the desperation of many politicians and policymakers to look busy and sign bad agreements at any cost.""--J. Michael Waller, PhD, Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy --J. Michael Waller ""For decades American presidents mismanaged North Korea policy, enabling one of the world's worst regimes to acquire the world's most powerful weapons. In tracing this long-running failure, Fred Fleitz writes with a command few other analysts can match, because--as an official at CIA, the State Department, and the White House National Security Council--Fleitz himself analyzed the raw intelligence, wrote the briefing papers, participated in the interagency debates, and saw firsthand who was ably serving the interests of U.S. national security and who was undermining them. At last, the truth has been told and names have been named--and the record of our times is immeasurably the richer for it."" --James Rosen, chief Washington correspondent at Newsmax and author of Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1988-2001 --James Rosen ""National security is not a game. It is deadly serious business. To craft effective national security policy, we need input from wise, experienced and pragmatic thinkers capable of taking the long view. Fred Fleitz is one of those. This is a masterful book. One hopes it will be read by everyone responsible for keeping our great nation safe and every citizen who cares about the future.""--Charles ""Sam"" Faddis, retired senior CIA operations officer. Author, commentator, and Senior Editor of AND Magazine. --Charles ""Sam"" Faddis ""Want to know how North Korea built the world's most destructive weapons and the means to deliver them to just about anywhere on the planet? Every American president, from George H.W. Bush onwards, has mishandled the Kim regime. That's how one of the weakest states in the world has almost always gotten the better of the strongest nation in history. Fred Fleitz provides the definitive account of what went wrong over the course of decades, and his explanation also sheds light on America's failed diplomacy with regard to other rogue actors.""--Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World --Gordon G. Chang