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Is it possible for something to collapse gradually? Or do we just call that “sagging?” Umm, no, Mr. Hwang. Extreme dictatorships don’t sag. They implode. But then again, we can stop all of this speculative nonsense once and for all. South Korea’s unification minister tells us there is “almost no possibility” of that happening. Nope, nothing unusual at all here. What looks deceptively like a purge of Kim Jong Il loyalists (I told you here to watch for this) is...

Is it possible for something to collapse gradually? Or do we just call that “sagging?” Umm, no, Mr. Hwang. Extreme dictatorships don’t sag. They implode. But then again, we can stop all of this speculative nonsense once and for all. South Korea’s unification minister tells us there is “almost no possibility” of that happening. Nope, nothing unusual at all here. What looks deceptively like a purge of Kim Jong Il loyalists (I told you here to watch for this) is...