In 2014, frightened rulers did scary things

Published December 26, 2014 10:00am ET



We all have tasks we try to get done before the end of the year, and Kim Jong Un’s is amping up the crazy. Last December, the North Korean despot approved the execution of his uncle for allegedly plotting against him. This December, his agents hacked Sony Pictures computers over a comedy depicting his assassination.

It’s enough to make you forget what he does to his real enemies: the people of North Korea. In February, a United Nations task force found his “crimes against humanity” to be “without any parallel in the contemporary world.”

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