FRONT PAGE: "North Korea Plans Kim Succession, U.S. Believes," by Jay Solomon, Evan Ramstad and Peter Spiegel, Wall Street Journal, 23-24 May 2009.

Amidst all the goofball partisan finger-pointing on cable news shows, this is a great article to return to for ground truth. This crisis has little to do with us, missile defense, defense spending, or our commitment to Asian security.

This is an internal crisis masquerading as a regional crisis.