In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unparalleled shows of armed service force. Past Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Vehicle Jackson traces the roots from the first American nuclear turmoil in the post-Cold War era, and clarifies the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it finished. Grounded in security studies and educated analysis of the united states response to North Korea’s increasing nuclear risk, Trump’s aggressive rhetoric is analysed in the framework of prior US plan failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean proper culture as well as the acceleration of its nuclear programme. Jackson argues which the Trump administration’s plan of ‘maximum pressure’ brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear battle than many realise – and graphs a program for preventing future conflicts.