North Korea‎'‎s development of nuclear weapons raises fears of nuclear war on the peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of mass destruction‎.‎ It also represents a dangerous and disturbing breakdown in U‎.‎S‎.‎ foreign policy‎.‎ Failed Diplomacy‎:‎ The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb offers an insider‎'‎s view of what went wrong and allowed this isolated nation ‎-‎-a charter member of the Axis of Evil ‎-‎-to develop nuclear weapons‎.‎ Charles L‎.‎ ‎"‎Jack‎"‎ Pritchard was intimately involved in developing America‎'‎s North Korea policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush‎.‎ Here‎,‎ he offers an authoritative analysis of recent developments on the Korean peninsula and reveals how the Bush administration‎'‎s mistakes damaged the prospects of controlling nuclear proliferation‎.‎ Although multilateral negotiations continue