Nuclear Offense

摘要

What does kim jong il really want? no one knows, of course—even the best intelligence on North Korea is sketchy—but its a fair bet that the diminutive dictator wants to stay alive. Kim is said to lie desperately worried. I le is believed to move around a lot, traveling from palaee to palaee as Saddam Hussein once did. 1 le disappears entirely from view for weeks. Kim even occasionally removes his pictures from buildings in Pyongyang, the capital city, in order to promote the idea that collective leadership is displacing his "Great Leader" cult. (He may be hoping to avoid a U.S. smart bomb with his name on it.) The one thing Kim has going for him is that most of the world fears that he has doomsday weapons. According to a visitor who met the dictator in Pyongyang recently, Kim said he could not give up his nuclear bombs because his million-man Army is hopelessly outmoded—leaving him at the mercy of the American military.