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Mystery Solved: Not that the speculation excited me much, but Kim Jong Il is in southern China. Frequent brief disappearances are de rigeur for this particular despot. The predictable triumph of exuberance over experience is the reporting that this time, he’s touring factories and learning about economic reform! Some people have been holding in that lungful of smoke for almost nine years now. The truth is that this horse has been led to that water before. . . .