Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

WIT, Joel S.; Daniel B. Poneman; Robert L. Gallucci [Madeleine K. Albright].

$300.00

Item Number: 147577

Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

First edition of this account where three former U. S. officials trace the efforts that led to the dismantling of North Korea’s plutonium production program. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light bumping to the extremities of the dust jacket with a small closed tear on the spine. Material laid in.

"Going Critical is the definitive account of the first North Korean nuclear crisis. The authors were at the center of this crisis, and thus speak with a unique authority. Their account is comprehensive, objective, and exceptionally well written. I highly recommend this book to Korean scholars and to nuclear policy scholars. It is an indispensable resource to those who are involved with the ongoing negotiations with North Korea" (William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense).