I’m sorry Hitchens didn’t live to hear the news.
But he’s waiting in “you know where” to give the dead NORK a big hug.
He’s meeting him face to face about now. :(
I agree. He called North Korea a "slave state." His article linked below is titled "Worse Than 1984."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2005/05/worse_than_1984.html