In her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexed story--and threat--of North Korea for those of us in the West who remain blinded by its myths and bigotry. Like China's Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung - North Korea's leader from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1996 - washed away the humiliation caused by Japanese colonisation and re-created an ancient nation. He consolidated and protected the...