{"id":41856,"date":"2017-03-01T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41856"},"modified":"2017-02-21T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:59:21","slug":"stop-north-korea-radical-new-approach-north-korean-standoff-shepherd-iverson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/stop-north-korea-radical-new-approach-north-korean-standoff-shepherd-iverson\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop North Korea! 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More outlandishly daring than realistically feasible, Iverson admits \u201cthe probability this fund will be implemented is small.\u201d A more daunting wild-card, however, is newly inaugurated President Trump: with his as-yet unknown policies toward North Korea beyond threatening tweets, Iverson\u2019s \u201csincere attempt to find a way to unify Korea before it is too late\u201d may be, for now, too late.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Stop-North-Korea-A-Radical-New-Approach-to-the-North-Korean-Standoff-Shepherd-Iverson\/pid=8607769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction\u00a0\u2013 Social Sciences\u00a0\u2013 Politics &amp; Government,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean studies professor Shepherd Iverson, who describes his eight-year residency in South Korea as having \u201cgone native,\u201d promises a \u201cmonograph &#8230; written for &#8230; the nimble, not the feebleminded,\u201d claiming he \u201cwill not present another bland description of events or another ordinary history-laden political science&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,60,20,1343,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,22,59,68,24,51,7240,364,7239,45],"class_list":["post-41856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-korean","category-nonethnic-specific","category-nonfiction","category-north-korean","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-shepherd-iverson","tag-sociology","tag-stop-north-korea","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stop North Korea! 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