Dec
19
“Kim Jong-il did not die on the run, or in a hole, or behind bars, or on the gallows. His final act of surprise was to outlast even those authoritarian peers who showed greater capacity for compromise: Qaddafi, Mubarak, and the other tin-pot potentates swept from power in this year of awakening.”
Evan Osnos on what might and, more ominously, what might not happen now.
