Kim Jong-Koresh

Governments trying to deal with North Korea might as well throw away the standard diplomacy textbooks and take a look through Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium and reports about the Waco siege. Years of isolation have turned the country into a cult in the shape of a nation state. That, more than anything, makes Kim Jong-Il and cronies a very scary proposition. A rogue 'nucular' power with the ability to make the Jonestown massacre look like a picnic.