Steel Wind

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I want to be wrong.

As recently as last month, North Korea had all the earmarks of an escalating nuclear threat to the United States, to our allies in Asia, and to the world itself. We had no reason to believe that the Kim family would even consider dismantling their arsenal or releasing the death grip on their captive citizens anytime in the foreseeable future.

Now, all of that seems to be changing. If we can take recent events at face value, the mad circus on the Korean peninsula may finally be shambling in the general direction of sanity.

So, I find myself hoping that I was wrong about the most important parts of this book. I hope I was wrong about the brutal tenacity of the Kim dynasty. I hope I was wrong about the mental instability of the current Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic. I hope I was wrong about the danger that North Korea poses to the safety of humankind.

By the time this book reaches your hands, we may know how wrong (or how right) I was. Kim Jong-un’s overtures toward disarmament and reunification will ultimately prove themselves to be genuine, or they will be revealed as yet another act of misdirection from a family of tyrants who have been deceiving their own people and the international community for more than half a century.

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