The stalker state: North Korean proliferation and the end of Amercian nuclear hegemony

Three US administrations have failed to avoid North Korean breakout from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a gaping hole in the IAEA safeguards system. Nuclear war is once again conceivable in Korea after a brief interlude in the early 1990s when this prospect all but disappeared. The North¿s announcement on October 4, 2006 that it intends to test a nuclear weapon underscores this failure.