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A review essay on a book by Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, & Robert L. Gallucci, Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, (Washington: Brookings Instit Press, 2004). Going Critical offers an insiders' view of the deal struck with North Korea in 1994 & a core lesson for the Bush administration: there's no substitute for negotiation. Adapted from the source document.

Almost exactly a half-century following the outbreak of the
Korean War, South Korea president Kim Dae-jung made a historic
visit to Pyongyang for the first-ever summit meeting between the
leaders of the two Koreas in June of 2000. A decade following
the collapse of communism in the rest of the world, Kim's
journey would inevitably be judged in history as a potential
starting point for the end of inter-Korean confrontation. Three
days following direct, broad-ranging discussions with his
counterpart, Kim Jong Il, Kim Dae-jung confidently returned to
Seoul with an inter-Korean summit declaration promising enhanced
efforts at reconciliation and inter-Korean exchange. Upon his
return to Seoul, Kim Dae-jung declared that there would be "no
more war" on the Korean Peninsula. The next task was to
institutionalize an array of exchanges and inter-Korean
interactions designed eventually to lead to national
reconciliation.