North Korea Nuclear Crisis 101

North Korea makes the international news far more often than other countries of its size. Its leader is a young, overweight guy with a funny haircut, and there are regularly big parades in the capital city featuring gaudy propaganda images and goose-stepping soldiers. But despite being a poor, inward-looking country, the North is a subject of major concern and fascination due to its growing arsenal of nuclear weapons. North Korea isn’t the only repressive authoritarian country in the world — t