North Korea: The Most Dangerous Nation On Earth (Prologue)

Frequent visitors to The Recovering Cynic have noticed that it’s been a good two or three days since I’ve posted anything of groundbreaking importance. This is partly due to my work schedule (which has grown a bit more rigid as of late), but I've also been squirreling away time to research a few topics that will be of crucial importance in the next few months. Although I've been sleuthing for Fahrenheit Fact (my joint blogging project with a-sdf), my primary focus has been to ferret out information on one of the most overlooked and dangerous nations to enter the Nuclear playground, North Korea.

When I first set out to obtain information about Kim Jung Il's "little shop of horrors," I was expecting to encounter information of the caliber that characterized most of the pre-war analyses on Iraq (i.e. highly editorialized, speculative, and journalistically suspect). Two hours and twenty-odd links later, I was appalled to find this was not the case. At website after glorious website, I found little controversy and almost complete consensus about the nature of the North Korean problem. With the sole exception of ABC, 9 out of 10 sources agreed that Kim Jung Il “Takes their food, strips ‘em nude, and can’t be sued!”

Despite such widespread commonality of analysis, however, there seems to be precious little saturation of these key messages. With the news media distracted by the Iraqi sovereignty transfer and the upcoming Presidential slugfest, Kim Jung Il has more breathing space than ever to continue making plans that will eventually affect the destiny of the entire western world. This is a man with a nuclear capacity at least 10 years beyond what Iran possesses and total control of a corrupt and Godless nation. Furthermore, his links to terror and his intense personal character flaws make his rule analogous to the brutal dictatorship of "you-know-who."

That's why I'm dedicating the next three days here on The Recovering Cynic to the deconstruction of the growing crisis in middle-Asia. In the next 52 hours, I hope to fully convince every skeptic out there that North Korea is one of the most repressed and dangerous nations on earth. Watch this space...

-TRC