NORTH KOREA [Andrew Stuttaford] Fascinating review from The Atlantic on some new books about North Korea. Read the whole thing but puzzle for a second on the strange case of Bruce Cumings, a history professor from the University of Chicago, author of North Korea: Another Country, a book in which the reviewer, B.R. Myers, notes, somewhat acidly, “we are even informed that the regime's gulags aren't as bad as they're made out to be, because Kim Jong Il is thoughtful enough to lock up whole families at a time.” The motivation of men like Cumings remains a mystery to me....