
Much of it is cooked up daily in Pyongyang. More than 40 years ago, Kim Il Sung, the “Great Leader” who founded the family dictatorship that rules North Korea, said there was “no secret” about his country’s behavior: “What is most important in our preparations is to educate all the people to hate U.S. Under its young dictator, Kim Jong Un, the government has suggested it was prepared to nuke Washington, Austin and Southern California. If that sounds mean-spirited, consider this: For years, North Korea has taught schoolchildren to bayonet effigies of U.S. The attack in Seoul was “a knife shower of justice,” North Korea said, praising it as “deserved punishment for warmonger United States.” North Korea cheered this month when a man with a knife and a history of violent behavior slashed the face of Mark Lippert, the U.S. Blaine Harden, a former Post reporter, is the author of the book “ The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot.”
