Why Does Kim Jong-Il Want Nuclear Weapons?
If Kim Jong-Il were just an eccentric celebrity—say a film actor or a rock singer—his antics and his paranoia would be just the subject of mild interest in the tabloids. Unfortunately Kim Jong-Il is the leader of a country with nuclear weapons. Kim Jong-Il may like his cognac and his string of mistresses, but he is also rules his country, North Korea, with the authority of an absolute God-King with the power of life and death over all of its twenty five million people.
