Arguing that North Korea is little more than a carefully constructed Chinese puppet state, the author looks into the heart of this "rogue nation" and finds the Chinese behind much of the terrorism and nuclear weapons manufacturing on the Korean peninsula. USD50,000 ad/promo.
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The bill of particulars in this informative if sometimes overwrought indictment is a long one. According to Triplett, North Korea is a "gulag nation" where millions starve under the cult of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il, whose fantastic powers are said to have included double rainbows announcing his birth and five holes-in-one during his very first round of golf. Abroad, Triplett says, North Korea functions as Kim’s "family-run criminal enterprise," with his henchmen (and -women) responsible for terrorist attacks and assassinations, as well as sidelines in narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting and kidnapping. Worst of all, North Korea has, or will soon have, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and missiles capable of reaching the United States, Triplett writes. The co-author of Red Dragon Rising and Year of the Rat and former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Triplett brings together a thoroughly researched update on North Korea’s threat in the new age of terror and WMDs. But his analysis of the problem rarely moves beyond dated anti-Communist polemics. Much of the book is devoted to demonstrating North Korea’s subservience to what Triplett identifies as the international communist conspiracy, circa 1949 ("all of them—Stalin, Mao, Kim, Ho, Burgess, Maclean, Philby and the others—had blood on their hands"), and to a rehash of old Cold War confrontations from the Korean War to the Pueblo incident. Even today, Triplett suggests, the real culprit is not so much the Kim dictatorship but Communist China, described as North Korea’s "master" and "‘enabler,’ if not co-conspirator and participant" in crime. Triplett contends, not unreasonably, that the solution to the North Korea problem is for China to bring pressure to bear on its client, but provides no satisfying rationale for how or why that will come about.
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William C. Triplett II is the former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has more than thirty years of experience working on China and national security. He lives with his family near Annapolis, Maryland.
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North Korea: How We Got Here? Where Do We Go?,
By mac (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America (Hardcover)
In an expansion upon his earlier works in U.S.-China relations, this latest by William C. Triplett II is an unflinching examination of North Korea. Triplett uses his skill as historian and political analyst to present an insightful inspection of the North Korean crisis, the Chinese nexus and policy prospects for future engagement. Triplett deftly weaves the complex issues of communism, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, terrorism, the U.N. and political theory into a single work with clear prose and cogent reduction. This book is an excellent choice for those who would like to become well informed on the crises and controversies surrounding Kim Jung Il and his father Kim Il Sung. Likewise, the thorough analyses of political missteps and contemporary hypotheses for future engagement, make this a must read for any who wish to remain abreast of the latest political theory on communist Asia.
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An Insider's Look at 58 years of the Kim dynasty,
By Leland Rhett Miller (Charlottesville, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America (Hardcover)
At a time when North Korea is deliberately threatening the world with a nuclear crisis, William Triplett's new book, Rogue State, provides some valuable insight.Unlike earlier works on the Koreas, Rogue State is neither a pure history text (a la Bruce Cumings) nor historical narrative (a la Don Oberdorfer), but rather a colorful, often grotesque, indictment of 58 years of tyrannical rule by the Kim dynasty. Written by the former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an insider to Washington's Asia policy for the better part of 30 years, Rogue State is a scathing chronicle of North Korea's involvement in drug trafficking, nuclear development, weapons proliferation, and sponsorship of terrorism. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Even a Beltway insider may learn for the first time about: - North Korea's clandestine "spy city," the underground enclave where Kim Jong Il trains his agents. - Kim Jong Il's mysterious "Office 39," the quasi-governmental department which operates his family's personal slush fund (and is even replete with its own personal gold mine). - Accounts of South Korean and Japanese women kidnapped by the Kim regime and forced into sexual slavery for regime bigwigs. - Tales of cannibalism in the countryside, part of the mass famine that occurred while Kim Jong Il was busy spending half a billion dollars on a memorial hall to glorify himself. One would think that a regime so despicable could have no defenders, but millions of teacher-indoctrinated students in South Korea and expatriate Koreans in Japan (the Chosen Soren) support the North with words and cash. Triplett takes care to delve into this bizarre phenomenon. Yet his focus is not limited to North Korea alone. His most controversial views, in fact, concern not Pyongyang but rather the familial connections he draws between Kim's regime and Beijing, the former representing (in Triplett's words) China's "borrowed knife." For those who've read his previous books, "Year of the Rat" and "Red Dragon Rising," the refrain is a familiar one, and Triplett's support for this thesis takes up a considerable portion of the book. Still, those who presume Triplett to be merely a conservative warmonger will have a few surprises in store. For instance, Triplett warns that America (short of an imminent threat) should not initiate hostilities in North Korea. Nor, he suggests, should Republicans or Democrats use the "other side's handling of the North Korea problem" as a campaign issue in 2004, an obvious eye-raiser considering the failed talks and finger-pointing that pervaded U.S. North Korea policy under Clinton. Moreover, Triplett's ultimate conclusion is uncharacteristically passive, namely that America will only be able to topple the despotic Pyongyang regime by convincing China that it is no longer in its interest to prop it up. Overall, whether or not you agree with all of Triplett's positions, this book should be greeted as a welcome addition to the strikingly small volume of literature on the Pyongyang regime. For readers who are looking for an insightful and highly-readable introduction to North Korea, the Kim dynasty, and the ever-tendentious U.S.-North Korean relationship, this book represents essential reading for 2004.
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