Book Review: The North Korean Nuclear Weapons Crisis

Not all scholarly works benefit from a treasure trove of facts and details. Sometimes there is too much data. The effort of the writer must be to tease out the most salient issues, arrange them in a manner consistent with the goals of the book, and present them in a cogent discussion that is accessible to the intended audience. It is not an easy task and it is not always successful, as any professor (who essentially does similar work preparing lectures), historian, or writer of non-fiction will tell you.