ABSTRACT
Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb Charles L. Pritchard. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. $26.95. 228 pp.
As US negotiators meet with North Korean counterparts in the various working groups of the Six-Party Talks to pin down the modalities for declaring and disabling North Korea’s plutonium-bomb programme, it is heartbreaking to consider all the ground that was lost during the first six years of the George W.
Bush administration. The current negotiations were made possible by a US-
