When the facts change, polity should change

ONCE a regime change takes place in Stalinist North Korea, the new mandarins will do something as urgent and as predictable as purging the family that kept the country in virtual darkness for generations. This is opening up North Korea to the world, open to capital and to outsiders alike, open to anything that will smell of income and profit. The new mandarins will take that policy of full openness without any qualms and with very few questions asked based on role models - the success stories of countries previously isolated like North Korea that had earlier made that giant leap, that transition.

It will be “To be Rich is Glorious,” Pyongyang version.