No political leader, however powerful, is completely in charge of their country.

When Kim Jong  Un is declared an ‘autocrat’ and the country over which he presides a ‘one-man dictatorship’, remember that this is a moral, not a factual statement. The fact that North Korea does not have free and fair elections, a functioning civil society, the rule of law, or a prison system which treats its inmates with basic dignity does not negate the fact that one man cannot govern alone.

Anyone who spends enough time reading about the history of the Soviet Union under Stalin will discover, much