Rumor has it that North Korea plans to boycott the latest Tom Clancy novel where Jack Ryan intercepts (and seizes) a SCUD missile shipment from North Korea to Yemen. Pyongyang blasted the plotline as having no connection to reality. “The U.S. would never dare interfere with free trade between free nations,” said a spokesman for the Secretariat for Feeding Propaganda to the Boneheaded World Media. “To do so, would be to effectively render itself an evil empire.”