Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

Explores whether North Korea is really a threat to the rest of the world.

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea. Misinterpretations and misunderstandings are fueling the crisis. "There is no country of comparable significance concerning which so many people are ignorant," American anthropologist Cornelius Osgood said of Korea some time ago. This ignorance may soon have fatal consequences. North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula, one that explores practical alternatives to the current US policy: alternatives that build on the remarkable and historic path of reconciliation that North and South embarked on in the 1990s and that point the way to eventual reunification.

The author, an expert in Asian history, reveals the tragic history of Korea that does not fit American stereotypes of the country, including Japan's historical and unrepentant role in creating and perpetuating a hostile North Korea.

North Korea back at the brink?: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 11, 2009.

A valuable political-military case study and an important resource about a critical period in recent Korean history

North Korea back at the brink?: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 11, 2009.