Speaking of North Korea, David Warren writes,

The argument that President Bush's "axis of evil" speech provoked their present behaviour I would have thought too silly for anyone to believe, but as I write I'm listening to the BBC. I am reminded of George Orwell's old truism, that there is nothing you can say so demented, that you will not get a choir of intellectuals singing along.

David writes a lot more on the NK problem, sadly but accurately ending with, "If there is a peaceful way out of this impasse, I do not know what it is."