That headline looks like it could almost come off of a real story about a real family here in the US. The good news is this story is not about Donald Trump and friends ruling the US as agents of KAOS, but there is drama, there is mystery, and there’s even murder most foul. Brief history lesson: North Korea is a country out of time, the last lone remnant of Cold War communist autocracies from the Asian theatre of the 20th century Cold War. It’s a poor, undeveloped country led by the unhinged dictator son of a communist sociopathic dictator that we’ll call Dear Leader and Dear Leader Jr.
Junior is a weird bird, a ruthless brat who controls the population using the mushroom strategy of keeping everyone in the dark and feeding them shit. He’s a sort of an international trust fund kid on steroids. Junior’s only real export comes in the form of extorting fellow nations by promising to shut up for a few months if they pay him. Analysts and pundits regularly predict his days are numbered and sooner or later, they will be right. Yeah, I know, it still sounds too close to home. Anyway, Junior’s half-brother was suddenly attacked, killed—apparently poisoned—the other day at a local airport and that’s where we are now:
Malaysian police on Wednesday detained a woman holding Vietnam travel papers and are looking for a "few" other foreign suspects in connection with the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother, police said.
Lawmakers in South Korea had earlier cited their spy agency as saying it suspected two female North Korean agents had murdered Kim Jong Nam, and U.S. government sources also told Reuters they believed North Korean assassins were responsible.
Next move? Who knows! That’s a big problem with a nuclear armed but otherwise goofy, poorly run, opaque government where everything is ultimately decided by one incompetent, ultra-isolated kook surrounded by a bunch of unscrupulous relatives and bootlicking toadies. And yes, I’m talking about North Korea here.