It’s time we talked about the Kim Jong Un in the room. Or rather, not in it. There has been intense speculation that the 36-year-old Supreme Leader of the Hermit Kingdom is either gravely ill or dead. Given that there's a woeful lack of intelligence about the closed-off nation, anything short of Kim delivering the news himself will likely keep rumors afloat. So we ask you, dear readers: What do you believe? Is the North Korean dictator alive, dead, sipping mai tais on the beach? Trump says he knows but won’t tell, so send us your best bad answers at politics@ozy.com. Last week we asked where you were from, and if you would go back to normal life if your governor told you to. Spencer H. in South Carolina says it’s time to reopen places that aren’t hot spots, but carefully: “By being hard on those who are infected and less restrictive on those that are not, we can get our economy moving at speed again.” Terry M. in Arkansas says there will be no “normal life” ... ever: “A lot of Americans will carry this scar with them like the memory of an old mugging. Big crowds, uh-uh, not going there. Enclosed spaces, subways, planes? Nope, nope, nope.” |