North Korea today is by all accounts a fairly unpleasant place to live; short on food, big on tyranny, and with a
psychotic musical marionette
for a leader. Amongst the political class, however, it is like a soothing aromatherapeutic balm of gravitas and consensus. North Korea is a rogue state run by evil men with nuclear weapons. Everyone agrees, which is why a
recent essay by Bruce Cumings
in the London Review of Books is so refreshing.
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