The authors make a strong case that leadership in confronting the problem can't be subcontracted to China. They set out a number of smart proposals, such as targeting the North Korean regime's export of slave labor (that helps fund proliferation) and increasing information flows into the closed and isolated country. But Cha and Gallucci are most creative in the way they integrate a focus on security and a focus on human rights — normally contending policy camps — into a single approach. They argue that the threat of North Korea emerges from the nature of the regime itself and that human rights criticism can be a source of leverage.