<p><b><br>''A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine''¿ </b><i>Evening Standard</i><br><br><b>**As heard on BBC Radio 4 <i>The World Tonight**</i></b><br><br><i>America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of 2020. This is the final, authorised report of the US government commission investigating the catastrophe.<br></i><br><br><i>¿The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue . . .¿</i> So begins this investigation by nuclear expert Dr Jeffrey Lewis into the horrific events of the three days that followed.<br><br>While covering the fatal milestones ¿ from North Korea¿s accidental shootdown of a South Korean airliner to the tweet that triggered carnage ¿ the report asks difficult questions about the conduct of world leaders along the path to war.<br><br>Did President Trump and his advisers realise the dangers of provoking Kim Jong Un with social media posts? Was conflict inevitable, or could the peace talks