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December 20, 2011 -- 5:00 a.m. EST See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal. MELANIE KIRKPATRICK Melanie Kirkpatrick: The World's Most Repressive State

President George W. Bush famously told journalist Bob Woodward, 'I loathe Kim Jong Il.'

 

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JOHN BOLTON 
John Bolton: 'The Great Successor'

There's no guarantee that the North Korean military will accept another hereditary ruler.

 

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Breaking the Kim Dynasty

Now is not the time for another round of Western bribes.

 

 

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