| Preface to the New Edition | |
| A Note on Korean Names | |
| 1 | Where the Wild Birds Sing | 1 |
| The Emergence of Two Koreas | 3 |
| War and Its Aftermath | 8 |
| The Origins of Negotiation | 11 |
| Kim Il Sung | 16 |
| Conversations with the South | 23 |
| 2 | The End of the Beginning | 27 |
| Park Chung Hee | 31 |
| Washington Blinks at Park's Coup | 37 |
| The Impact of Yushin | 41 |
| 3 | The Trouble Deepens | 47 |
| The Struggle with Japan | 51 |
| The Underground War | 56 |
| Challenge from the North | 59 |
| Echoes of Saigon | 64 |
| The South Korean Nuclear Weapons Program | 68 |
| Murder in the Demilitarized Zone | 74 |
| 4 | The Carter Chill | 84 |
| Carter's Withdrawal: Origins and Implementation | 85 |
| The View from Pyongyang | 94 |
| End of the Carter Withdrawal | 101 |
| 5 | Assassination and Aftermath | 109 |
| The Coming of Chun Doo Hwan | 116 |
| The Kwangju Uprising | 124 |
| The Fight to Save Kim Dae Jung | 133 |
| 6 | Terror and Talk | 139 |
| The Negotiating Track | 144 |
| Floods and Face-to-Face Talks | 147 |
| Kim Il Sung and the Soviet Connection | 153 |
| 7 | The Battle for Democracy in Seoul | 161 |
| Chun's Succession Struggle | 162 |
| The Election of 1987 | 172 |
| 8 | The Great Olympic Coming-Out Party | 179 |
| The Coming of the Olympics | 180 |
| The Bombing of Kal Flight 858 | 183 |
| The Rise of Nordpolitik | 186 |
| Washington Launches a Modest Initiative | 192 |
| 9 | Moscow Switches Sides | 197 |
| The Roots of Change | 200 |
| Gorbachev Meets Roh | 204 |
| The Shevardnadze Mission | 213 |
| "How Long Will the Red Flag Fly?" | 218 |
| Soviet-South Korean Economic Negotiations | 225 |
| 10 | China Shifts Its Ground | 229 |
| A Visit to North Korea | 232 |
| China Changes Course | 239 |
| 11 | Joining the Nuclear Issue | 249 |
| The Origins of the Nuclear Program | 251 |
| Nuclear Diplomacy: The American Weapons | 255 |
| The December Accords | 260 |
| Meeting in New York | 265 |
| The Coming of the Inspectors | 267 |
| From Accommodation to Crisis | 271 |
| 12 | Withdrawal and Engagement | 281 |
| The Light-Water Reactor Plan | 287 |
| Kim Young Sam Blows the Whistle | 291 |
| The Season of Crisis Begins | 297 |
| 13 | Showdown over Nuclear Weapons | 305 |
| The Defueling Crisis | 306 |
| The Military Track | 311 |
| The Deepening Conflict | 316 |
| Carter in Pyongyang | 326 |
| 14 | Death and Accord | 337 |
| The Succession of Kim Jong Il | 345 |
| The Framework Negotiations | 351 |
| The Kim Jong Il Regime | 359 |
| The Struggle over the Reactors | 365 |
| 15 | North Korea in Crisis | 369 |
| Political Earthquake in Seoul | 376 |
| Summit Diplomacy and the Four-Party Proposal | 382 |
| The Submarine Incursion | 387 |
| North Korea's Steep Decline | 393 |
| The Passage of Hwang Jang Yop | 399 |
| The Two Koreas in Time of Trouble | 406 |
| 16 | Turn Toward Engagement | 409 |
| Into the Heavens, under the Earth | 410 |
| Toward an Aid-Based State | 414 |
| Perry to the Rescue | 418 |
| Toward the June Summit | 423 |
| Summit in Pyongyang | 428 |
| Engaging the United States | 435 |
| Afterword | 443 |
| Principal Korean Figures in the Text | 447 |
| Acknowledgments | 451 |
| Notes and Sources | 461 |
| Index | 503 |
