The always-interesting John McCreary has put together a couple of reports from North Korea, one noting that the Dear Leader and Forever President has stashed $4 billion in secret European bank accounts as an emergency fund, in case the people ever wake up and run him out of the country. $4 billion is real money, even in Barack Obama’s America; in North Korea, it represents a tenth of the country’s total annual output of goods and services.
In other news from Pyongyang, the dictator’s third son is about to have his official portrait released. To Pyongyang-watchers, this means that Kim Jong-un has been anointed as the heir apparent. For further proof, they point to the fact that the personal name Jong-un is now reserved for him alone. You can’t name your kid Jong-un any more, and if that happens to be your own name, you’ve got to change it. Blue skies! – Dan Ford
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