Can Kim Jong Il be trusted to not sell or use nukes?
Top Story: Kim Jong Il, North Korea and Nuclear Weapons There were a number of competing stories from which to choose this month: the continuing antics of Britney Spears, the death of singer Rick James and the arraignment on murder charges of music producer Phil Spector. However, due to the inclusion of North Korea as a topic of the first Presidential debate, the mystery of a massive explosion and mushroom-shaped cloud of debris over the country’s far north and threats against Japan should the U.S. ever intervene, Kim Jong Il and the possibility of alcoholic megalomania wins top honors. Kim Jong Il (as in “ill” or the post office abbreviation for Illinois, IL) runs what appears to be the most bizarre, totalitarian, repressive, Orwellian and Stalinist regime ever. North Korean propaganda describes Kim (the Korean first name is actually the last) as “incomparable, omnipotent, infallible, clairvoyant, the perfect brain, the morning star” and “one who rivals the sun itself.” The same state
