North Korea: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King

North Korea: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King

Kim Jong-il imposed unimaginable hardship on the North Korean people. What follows him could be even worse.

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato) and The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor).