Failed Diplomacy The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb

Preface

1. Prelude to Crisis

PART I. The Role of Rhetoric: Getting to Yes

2. Confrontation over Highly Enriched Uranium

3. Influencing the Bush Team

4. Establishing a Multilateral Framework

Part II. Origin of the Six-Party Talks

5. Washington and Seoul: A Falling Out

6. The Players

PART III. Six-Party Talks

7. Six-Party Talks: A Scorecard

8. Rounds Four and Five: False Start or Cause for Optimism?

9. Consequences and Accountability

10. Missiles, Nukes, and Talks

11. Bilateral Engagement with Pyongyang: The Record

12. Establishing a Permanent Security Forum

Epilogue

Appendixes

Notes

Index