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I admit to being fascinated by Kim Yo Jong. Aren’t you? Isn’t everyone?

Not quite everyone. You can rely on Joshua Stanton, author of the choleric but indispensable blog One Free Korea, to be a party-pooper if anyone tries to cut North Korea some slack.

Stanton takes no prisoners, and in my view sometimes overstates his case. Yet he is always a bracing read, and a salutary counterpoint to more uncritical and superficial media. (He also has the virtue of providing