Note on Romanization of Korean Names = xvii Foreword North Korea Takes the World Backward = xix 1. KU KLUX KOREA Amenca Creates a Renegade Nation = 3 2. AN ARSENAL OF AMBITIONS = 22 Can North Korea Be Peacefully Disarmed? 3. THE PYGMALION OF PYONGYANG = 49 Horth Korea Tries Reform and Creates Geopolitical Crisis 4. COLLAPSE PERHAPS? = 70 "Oppressed" North Koreans Are Remaking Their Society 5. HOUSEWIVES FOR NUCLEAR TERROR = 89 Seoul Becomes Pyongyang's Ally 6. SYMPATHY FROM THE DEVIL = 115 China Stands Behind Kim's Korea 7. TOKYO, TARGET FOR TERMIHATION = 137 Japan's Relations with Asia Complicate the Huclear Tatks 8. AID CHARADE = 155 Haw the World Helps Norh Korea Build Nuclear Weapons 9. FLIRTING WITH UNSPEAKABLE EVIL = 168 Should the WorId Engage Pyongyang to End a Planetary Showdown? 10. THE END OF AMERICAN PRIMACY = 179 The inevitable consequences of irreversible Declme 11. CIVILIZATION'S LAST WEAPON = 189 Nuclear Arms Fragment Global Stability 12. LAST EXIT BEFORE THE DARK AGES = 205 What the World Should Do Now Epilogue Plutonium Pate = 221 Note = 231 Index = 309.