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Bill Richardson is the Governor of New Mexico, a former Secretary of Energy, a suspected presidential aspirant, and the latest of a series of highly intelligent men to make jaw-droppingly stupid pronouncements of diplomatic–and even humanitarian–optimism about North Korea. Richardson may well be a perfectly fine governor, but reasonable success at governance and bureaucracy in a society of laws and compromises does not necessarily qualify one to go eyeball-to-eyeball with bloody-minded sociopaths with nukes. Only in the foreign policy vacuum...

I posted a long, detailed update here at NKZone, which links to some great reporting from the Times of London. Today, at least, the Chosun seems to have better sources in Washington than in North Korea (where’s Kang Chol Hwan these days?), while the opposite is true of the Korea Herald. This Roger L. Simon blog post contains a summary of linked reports (admittedly from the Sankei Shinmun, not my favorite Japanese newspaper) that there is indeed a nascent resistance...

I posted a long, detailed update here at NKZone, which links to some great reporting from the Times of London. Today, at least, the Chosun seems to have better sources in Washington than in North Korea (where’s Kang Chol Hwan these days?), while the opposite is true of the Korea Herald. This Roger L. Simon blog post contains a summary of linked reports (admittedly from the Sankei Shinmun, not my favorite Japanese newspaper) that there is indeed a nascent resistance...