Second Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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Editorial Note: In order to avoid spoiling your enjoyment of our book, the following questions are intended to be circumspect.

1. How does our book compare to other books about life under totalitarian regimes, such as Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World or Koestler’s Darkness at Noon?

2. How well does North Korea’s control of information insulate it from change?

3. Is there anything that other governments, most notably South Korea’s, can do to transform the situation?

4. How long can the U.S. policy of quarantine continue to be successful, especially vis-à-vis using intelligence to interdict North Korean exports of nuclear materials and plans to wannabe nuclear states and/or non-state groups?

5. How difficult would it be to apply sufficient pressure on the Chinese to tame its attack dog?

6. Does Leslie Gelb (the author of our focus for last month = Power Rules), who claimed that foreign policy is just a matter of “common sense,” have the answer? If so, what is it?