Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

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Mike Chinoy, Pacific Council on International Policy

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes
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When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was frozen. Kim Jong-Il had signaled to the outgoing Clinton administration he was ready to negotiate an end to his missile program. Today, North Korea has become a full-fledged nuclear power, with enough fissile material to manufacture as many as ten more warheads. How did the United States fail to prevent a long-standing adversary like North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? Longtime CNN correspondent and North Korea expert Mike Chinoy addressed this issue and his new book Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

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