This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 28, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

North Korea is the least free state on the planet,

but Americans and others around the world

instead of recoiling and the cold brutality the regime and the wealth it destroys

often simply laugh at its longtime funny-looking leader

Kim Jong-Iil author Michael malice an attempt to demystify the regime, has written,

Dear Reader, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong-Iil. He spoke at the Cato Institute last week.

North Korea to me, and I think to most people would agree, is probably the lowest hanging

fruit for the liberty movement.

It is the least free nation on earth.

It is a huge symbol of the horrors of capitalism,

the horrors of dictatorship and totalitarianism.

So I said, and we also, there's a lot of hand-ringing about how do we get people thinking

about these ideas and concerned about the ideas that we're so passionate

about the ideas of liberty and everyone in America is a

libertarian vis-à-vis North Korea. So I went there a couple of years back. This is me with the great leader Kim Kim Il, and Kim Jong-il on the right,

and I guess I'm the Holy Ghost in this Trinity.

And I bought armfuls of the propaganda.

And usually when I write a book with a celebrity,

sit down, I work with them, we interview,

we go back and forth, I did not have that privilege here.

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