Has Kim Jong-il Lost It?
Has Kim Jong-il Lost It? Sunday May 23, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) North Korea’s Kim Jong-il is famously unpredictable, but the recent sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan by a North Korean torpedo attack makes me think that Kim has lost one of two things: either he has lost control of his military, or he has lost his mind. If the “Dear Leader” actually ordered the attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors, then he is crazier than we knew. The South has cut off all trade contacts with its northern neighbor, and President Lee Myung-Bak compared this incident with the invasion that sparked the Korean War. Foreign powers are le