North Korea is one of the world's smallest and poorest nations, yet it is one of only nine nations with a nuclear arsenal. Its long-range missiles are believed capable of reaching the United States. Specialists doubt its warheads can survive re-entry into the atmosphere and accurately hit a designated target, but persistent effort makes this eventually likely. How did this happen? Thirty years ago, the US and DPRK signed the Agreed Framework, their first diplomatic agreement. It was to keep the Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. Obviously, it fell short. Why? This study seeks an answer. The author was a key player in the agreement's negotiation and implementation which he recorded contemporaneously in twenty-eight unpublished notebooks, diaries, and hundreds of photographs between 1992 and 2002. He has merged this with knowledge gleaned from official documents and other authors' insights. His conclusion may not be definitive, but it is arguably a significant step in that direction.
Dr C. Kenneth Quinones was the first US diplomat to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the first to meet DPRK leader Kim Il Sung. A key player in the Agreed Framework's negotiation and implementation, he accompanied congressional delegations to North Korea and conducted liaison between the US and North Korean governments at North Korea's nuclear research center and between the US and Korean People's Army during more than thirty extended stays in the DPRK between 1992 and 2002. He holds a PhD in History and East Asian Studies from Harvard University, has published five books and over forty academic papers, and has taught and presented lectures at universities in the United States, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Russia, and China. He began studying East Asia in 1963 as a soldier, then as a student, professor, and diplomat.
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