Kim Dae-Jung and the quest for the Nobel
Subtitle: how the president of South Korea bought the peace prize and financed Kim Jong-il's nuclear program
By: Donald Kirk, Kisam Kim
Contributors: Kim, Ki-sam
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137353085
Subjects: Awards; Nobel Prize winners; Nobel Prizes; Political aspects; Politics and government; Foreign relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
Description: "Kim Kisam, a former South Korean intelligence officer, has collaborated with Donald Kirk, journalist and author, in a study of the campaign waged by Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korean president, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This book, relying heavily on files that Kim obtained from Korean intelligence files before seeking asylum in the US, reveals an array of resources dedicated to the quest that culminated in Kim Dae-jung's winning the prize in 2000. The book details the strategy and tactics used to win over highly placed Norwegians and Swedes as well as foreign journalists with emphasis on the misallocation of resources. Most importantly, the book shows the relentless pursuit of the prize as the motive for bringing about the inter-Korean summit of June 2000 at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars paid to North Korea's Kim Jong-il - funds used to finance missile and nuclear programs that threaten the region and the world"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword; title: 1. Asylum at Last!; title: 2. Norwegian Base; title: 3. Softening the Swedes; title: 4. Spreading the Net; title: 5. Eyes on the Prize; title: 6. Shielding the Deeds; title: 7.Courting the Bishop; title: 8. Scaling the Summit; title: 9. Beyond the Summit; title: 10. Playing the Media; title: 11. Swedish Connection; title: 12. Facing the Rivals; title: 13. Sunshine Exposed; title: 14. In History's Glare; title: 15. Legacy of Terror; title: Cast of Characters; title: Nobel Peace Prize Winners; title: Chronology; title: Bibliography.