Thu, Feb 09
|Collected Works Bookstore
Siegfried S. Hecker, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program
North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country―one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years―progress from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of perhaps 50 such weapons in 2021?
Date, Time & Location
Feb 09, 2023, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This event is co-sponsored by Global Santa Fe. Siegfried Hecker will be in conversation with Global Santa Fe's Program Chair, Jim Falk.
This will be an in-store presentation and we will also live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.
Purchase Hinge Points online here or call the store to order.
Hinge Points brings readers literally inside the North Korean nuclear program, joining Siegfried Hecker to see what he saw and hear what he heard in his visits to North Korea from 2004 to 2010. Hecker goes beyond the technical details―described in plain English from his on-the-ground experience at the North's nuclear center at Yongbyon―to put the nuclear program exactly where it belongs, in the context of decades of fateful foreign policy decisions in Pyongyang and Washington.
Describing these decisions as "hinge points," he traces the consequences of opportunities missed by both sides.The result has been that…