Thwart Totalitarian Terror

South Korea has recently reported xenon, a radioactive gas and often a byproduct of work on nuclear weapons, emanating from the menacing North which also stands accused of sinking a South Korean warship without provocation and killing forty-six. North Korea is without a doubt one of the world's worst proliferators and purveyors of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Only Pakistan's A.Q. Khan has done as much to advance the nuclear extortion state as the North Koreans. Syria was allegedly using North Korean supplies, technical advisers, and expertise to construct her secret nuclear weapons program before Israel launched a covert attack. North Korea is the last Stalinist state, refusing to even let her citizens out of the prison nation to attend the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa with Chinese fans being contracted to serve as proxies in that role, and I pity the North Korean coach and even the players who are at real peril of their lives after being defeated by Portugal seven nil (7-0) which the Dear Leader may avenge as a national humiliation at the literal ultimate cost to those who sought to valiantly represent the useless authoritarian state. If I were a member of the team or its staff, and South Africa or some other nation might permit, I would defect at the earliest possible opportunity although that would most likely mean that the players' families' lives are forfeit. Only Iran today can match North Korea in causing malignant mischief on the world stage.