2005 will be remembered as a year with crucial implications for the Korean peninsula and beyond. It may go down in history as the year the United States was able to establish a foundation to resolve the intractable problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons activity. It could also be the year North Korea committed itself to becoming a nuclear weapons state without compromise. Understanding that 2005 had watershed potential, the contributors to this timely volume present a snapshot of what is happening in North Korea and offer policy suggestions abour what can and should be done going forward.