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One of my aides tells me that some psychiatrist in the West once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting to get a different result. I thought that was pretty good, though I imagine in your State Department there are some folks who probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Now I know that you think that makes me insane. After all, I run one of the most impoverished countries in the world. Here, a boom year is any one in which we manage to avoid a famine that kills thousands. But you have to understand, what I value most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

I recently changed the denominations of our currency to wipe out the savings of anyone who possessed over 300,000 won (basically a few hundred of your dollars). Why did I do this? Because a lot of those people had earned that money in private markets - which the Party here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

So, by your standards, we are not "rational." I mean, look, we just had a planeload of missile parts intercepted in Thailand. I think you know where that plane was headed. Why in the world would we be shipping parts for our glorious Taepodong 2 missile to Iran, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Now don't me wrong. It's a problem that the plane was intercepted, mostly because it puts the comrades in Beijing in a difficult spot. You could lobby them for more restrictive economic sanctions against us, just as you are now doing with Iran, and they are not comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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