New Evidence Pyongyang is Still There

Honoring world leaders' current visit next door, there's been a little flurry of North Korea stories. Diplomatic Courier wonders about Beijing's Abiding "Friendship" With Pyongyang. The BBC tells us about "Kimjongilia" and the "Kimilsungia", which are not diseases, but in fact flowers named after you-know-who. And The Economist has the story of a trip to North Korea by an unnamed correspondent who has been there before, and who writes about this most recent trip, "Remarkably (and inexplicably) on this visit, no attempt is made to stop us leaving the hotel without our guides." Progress.