A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-MAR-07

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A MOMENT OF CRISIS: JIMMY CARTER, THE POWER OF A PEACEMAKER, AND NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS

Marion Creekmore, Jr.,

New York: Public Affairs, 2006

xxvi + 392 pages, $27.50 (cloth)

Deja vu with North Korea and Iran

Ambassador Marion Creekmore's recently published book, A Moment of Crisis, is a significant addition to the growing library of literature in English about the first North Korean nuclear crisis of 1992-1994 and the United States' global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. This is the first book to examine closely President Carter's June 1994 visit to Pyongyang when he sought to break the impasse in the US-DPRK nuclear negotiations so that the United States would halt its effort to impose UN sanctions on North Korea.

It is also the first book to make available publicly President Carter's record of his personal thoughts at the time, and the unedited details of his discussions with President Clinton, South Korean President Kim Yong-sam and North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. All other books about the first North Korean nuclear crisis relied either on media...

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