The Coldest War.How a succession crisis put the U.S. and North Korea on a collision course- and why two Americans are caught in the middle

摘要

When he was a boy, the apparent dictator-in-waiting used to be an enthusiastic basketball player-not to mention a sort of coach on the floor. Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of the man known as the Dear Leader, North Korea's Kim Jong II, would play hoops with his friends and his brother and afterward, according to a memoir written by his family's former chef, would gather his teammates and offer constructive criticism: "You should have passed here instead of shooting. We should have double-teamed this guy." (No one, mind you, ever told the Dear Leader's son what he might have done wrong.)