A Modest Proposal to Solve Our North Korea Problem

Give me one pliable Kim imitator, and I’ll make the threat posed by Pyongyang disappear.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits a pursuit assault plane group under the Air and Anti-Aircraft Division in the western area in an undated image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on April 12, 2020.

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North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, recently reemerged after a three-week absence only to disappear again for another couple of weeks. Indeed, some observers believe that the well-publicized “reappearance” was fake news, the work of a body double to maintain the fiction that Kim is alive and well amid widespread speculation about his health.

“The photos have instead raised suspicions that a lookalike could have been there in his place—with web sleuths noting discrepancies in facial hairline and dental features when compared with previous appearances,” the New York Post reported.

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Doug Bandow

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire.

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