At the Daily NK, two of the more sober and best-informed analysts offer some fairly scary prognostications (Klingner here, Lankov here).  I tend to agree with the idea that we’re going to see more instability there.  I’ve been saying that for a long time, but I also expect things to accelerate soon.  No one could have imagined that Libya and Syria would become unstable a year ago, and just look at those places now.  The more repressive the regime, the...

Soon enough, we’ll see different narratives about Kim Jong Eun emerge. North Koreans are already hearing about Kim Jong-Eun’s badass marksmanship, and I suppose we’ll see him credited with superhuman intellence next. Foreigners will want to believe he’s the next Gorbachev, and trust me, Peter Pan had nothing on our State Department. I’d love to believe that myself. And I suspect a certain former Washington Post reporter and frequent Pyongyang visitor is presently writing an op-ed telling us all that...