For today, let me introduce the book, Rogue Regime and its author. You may want to read it immediately!

"What happens when a dictator has absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by beautiful girls and stocked with expensive international delicacies..."

That's from the jacket, which also describes author Jasper Becker as a man who has "worked as a foreign correspondent for twenty years, including eleven years based in Beijing. He has written four books on the region..."

Reading his book,the New York Times says Becker's work is "not for the faint-hearted... The facts almost defy belief." The Times Book Review: North Korea is "...the worst man-made catastrophe in modern history." Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute: "... this dynastic dictatorship genuinely empowers evil... only regime change is likely to bring a better life to the millions of ordinary North Koreans suffering..." Suzanne Scholte, Defense Forum Foundation, "Kim Jong Il is in a category of tyranny all on his own... encouragement and appeasement only strengthen him... [we must care about] the slow certain genocide of the North Korean people..."