New Review: Rogue State

The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the mob owned their own country? Obviously, this would be a country run strictly on guns, drugs, and sex. The only law and order would be the one that best serves the bosses' needs. A country run by a mob boss would most likely not be inclined to cooperate with international agreements. In fact, said country would be doing everything possible to undermine world security, if for no other reason than to provide a venue for their guns, drugs, and sex.
Friends, such a place exists and its name is North Korea.

When authors take on the subject of North Korea, they tend to center their themes on its nuclear weapons capabilities, factual or otherwise. Former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and bestselling author William C. Triplett II, however, has written more than just the obligatory warning of nuclear Armageddon stemming from the Korean peninsula. He has written a short history of the connection between Communist China and North Korea that has enabled Kim Jong Il to become a greater terrorist than Osama bin Laden.

The book is called, “Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America,” but it really is much more than a collection of warnings stemming from N. Korea's potential nuclear arsenal. Triplett takes at least a third of the book to illuminate the many historical events that have gotten us to a point in history where a criminal regime on a small peninsula in Asia can threaten world security with the push of a button. Continued