IS NORTH KOREA NEARING COLLAPSE? We’ve got credible reports of mass starvation. Now more, and more desperate, people are trying for asylum in foreign consulates. I don’t know if North Korea is near collapse, though it wouldn’t surprise me. But if it does collapse in the near future, I predict that reports of the horrors going on there will bring a lot of discredit on the constructive-engagement policies of Kim Dae Jung.

UPDATE: Zach Barbera noted last month that North Koreans were trying to escape to Mongolia and asked just how bad things had to be for people to do that.