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…well, you can go ahead and fill in the blanks.

But that would seem to be the prognosis of an excellent new book called The Cleanest Race (affiliate link), penned by B.R. Myers, a title I’d written about extensively yesterday which garnered a considerable amount of feedback from my readers (thanks to all who emailed in, especially on Facebook)

Myers’ premise in a nutshell is thus: we here in cushy West are astonishingly  ignorant of the North Korean menace, and our present political engagements and strategies vis-a-vis the hermit kingdom — whereby the US and its allies demand unfettered access to the DPRK’s nuclear facilities and the immediate, unconditional dismantling of its overall WMD program — runs counter to the ruling philosophy of North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Mr. Kim Jong Il (ain’t he cute? Some South Koreans certainly think so).

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