Kim Jong Il and the New Millennium

Kim Jong Il is essentially in a position of comfort during this time. He has very little personal incentive to actually change his system. Simple market reforms, like those introduced by China and Russia, might have guaranteed a food supply. But any capitulation to capitalism is out of the question. Kim's token attempts to feed his starving population of farcical. German media report that Kim attempts to solve the famine by breeding giant rabbits for eating. The story goes that a German farmer who breeds rabbits the size of dogs is asked by the North Korean regime to help set up a farm. Twelve giant rabbits are sent to North Korea to get the ball rolling. The farmer is shocked to hear that they've