This has nothing to do with photography or fotoLibra, but apparently there’s another Dear Leader lurking around as well as me. For those of you not in on the joke ho ho Jacqui Norman in her Newsletters and Picture Calls routinely refers to me as the Dear Leader. I refuse to speculate as to why. Anyway, it looks like the other Dear Leader might be handing over his crown shortly.

I refer to Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or North Korea as we call it). This is a fascinating out-of-this world country, neither democratic nor a republic, and I’d love to go and see it. An American commentator, Nicholas Eberstadt, wonderfully remarked a few years ago when North Korea introduced money for the first time (up till then citizens had been allocated what the Government deemed they required, so there was no need for cash) “You might say they’ve left Pluto and reached Mars. This sounds like very central change, and not tinkering at the margins, but it is still a long ways to Earth.”

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