""Extortion" is an ugly word to describe an ugly art, and nobody is better at extortion than those wild and crazy guys in Pyongyang. But who's crazier than foolish marks who fall all over themselves to submit, like sheep for shearing, to an extortionist's evil scheme?
It's comforting, in a weird and wasteful way, to regard the latest provocation, the deliberate North Korean shelling of civilian homes on an island off South Korea, as merely more mayhem from madmen. This followed the unprovoked sinking of a South Korean gunboat in March, killing 46 officers and sailors, leaving only tut-tutting in the wake of the attack. But there's method in the wild, crazy madness."
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