Deep in the DPRK

What's really going on inside North Korea. Cliffs Notes version: Kim Jong Chubby's aunt and uncle are trying to shore up his image as an aggressive leader in order to avoid a military coup.

"They're trying desperately to portray an image of General Kim perfectly conducting the military in times of national crisis by intentionally creating a crisis situation these days," said Yun Duk-Min, professor at Korea National Diplomatic Academy.

Classic Byzantine politics. Over the next couple of years we can expect Fat Cheeks to become a figurehead, with his aunt and uncle ruling by military fiat. The danger, of course, is that they are much older and will be dead in a decade or two, at which point there will come into being a power vacuum of frightening proportion and immediacy. That's when we'll really have to be concerned.