North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un appears on a screen during a confetti-filled concert at the Pyongyang Arena in May 2016. But this is not just wrong, North Korea watchers and dictatorship experts say. Writing off Kim Jong Un as a lunatic could equally be playing into his hands. “He was acting very diplomatically and professionally,” said Spavor, who accompanied Dennis Rodman, the basketball player, on his trips to North Korea. North Korea was established in vehement opposition to the American “imperialist aggressors” and their “puppets” in South Korea.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2017 00:33 UTC