NoKo watch

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 1:18 PM Share

Besides what I saw in Team America, I don't know much about North Korea -- since 9/11, I've been busy elsewhere. But people who do keep an eye on Pyongyang are raising eyebrows over the noises out of there this morning. John McCreary's NightWatch is alarmed by the regime's demand in a party newspaper for support from its people. "When a Communist Party organ – Rodong Sinmun is the mouthpiece of the Korean Workers' Party – makes an appeal to the people to support the regime, that signifies an existential threat," McCreary, a veteran DIA analyst, observes. Stay tuned. This might surpass Pakistan as Obama's first crisis.