For decades, the international community has fretted and fumed about the totalitarian Communist regime that rules North Korea. It controls and starves its own population while pursuing an aggressive program of nuclear and ballistic military development. So far, neither negotiations nor sanctions have seemed to effectively offer long-lasting protection to either neighboring nations or world peace, and neither military nor humanitarian intervention has seemed able to improve the living conditions and human rights of the 25 million citizens of North Korea.

Which is why, without being resigned to the worst, we should accept reality and change course.

In this pithy and provocative book, Pierre Rigoulot offers a few possible opening measures that could lead to regime change in North Korea, and to the country’s abandoning nuclear weapons.

A lucid and hard-hitting essay about realistic options that could conceivably lead to a peaceful resolution to the North Korean crisis and to a certain democratization of Kim Jong-Un’s regime.