A brand new guide by a retired Japanese diplomat presents a uncommon look into the multilateral effort to construct two mild water reactors (LWRs) in North Korea, providing insightful particulars into the fact of working within the nation however taking pains to not reveal something of substance about why the mission finally failed.
Sugiyama Takeshi was the primary resident Japanese consultant to the mission in Kumho, South Hamgyong Province, dwelling and dealing there from 1998 to 2000, and he particulars his experiences in “A Dimwitted Diplomat’s North Korean Journal: A Record of What I Saw and Heard in a Two-Year Stay in ‘Paradise.’”