U.S.: Take away Kim Jong Il's iPod!
Bruce Sterling on the U.S. plans to block the sale of luxury goods to North Korea:
All this former militant thundering against the Axis of Evil, and now that they've got a Bomb, the approach is to cunningly deprive the regime of bling-bling. I dunno, man... if the guy actually LIVES on cognac and Marlboros, maybe he'll invade South Korea just to get to the duty-free.