“Seemingly overnight,” Time reported in January 2003, “the U.S. begins the New Year eyeball to eyeball with a paranoid, ruthless regime hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons to complement an army the Pentagon rates among the most formidable in the world.” Harrison interpreted this sudden turn of events differently. “With stunning rapidity,” he contended, “the Bush administration had ended a decade of U.S. diplomatic arrangements with North Korea to eliminate its nuclear weapons program based on a CIA report describing its HEU enrichment efforts as a distant and uncertain possibility.” The evidence that Washington provided Japan, Russia, and South Korea did not confirm plant construction, but only