North Korea (and Darfur and other humanitarian crises) - What can we do?

Dennis Rodman, in cap, and his traveling companions are now the only Americans known to have met the North Korean leader since he took power more than a year ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/01/kim-jong-un-dennis-rodman-video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html

holy shit

whole thing is o_O but

Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death.

On the explicit orders of Kim Jong-un to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair," according to South Korean media, Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and "obliterated."

North Korea: still hilarious

I mean, this was probably the more appropriate thread....

Dear Leader by Jang Jin-Sung should be a compelling read, he is the former N Korean propagandist who defected to S Korea in 2004.

Jang Jin-sung held one of the most senior ranks in North Korea's propaganda machine, helping tighten the regime's grip over its people. Among his tasks were developing the founding myth of North Korea, posing undercover as a South Korean intellectual and writing epic poems in support of the dictator, Kim Jong-il.

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/jang-jin-sung-takes-us-inside-the-sinister-and-absurd-world-of-north-koreas-god-king-regime