Life is cheap and mistakes are costly in North Korea. In that country, the concepts of love and friendship do not exist. All feelings of love are to be directed at Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un. You feel nothing when someone else starves or disappears because she disappointed Dear Leader. After the newest Navy Destroyer failed to launch, the only people waiting for the outcome are Western outsiders. The North Korean locals, not directly involved with the disaster, have already moved on.

It’s very difficult for Westerners to accept the concept of living without love and friendship, we are so tribal, so clannish. Proud of our name and heritage. Genealogy is a popular hobby. Not in North Korea. Love and friendship are not allowed. Neither is the concept of “I” or the individual encouraged.

Thursday was a very bad day for “Little Rocket Man”, Kim Jong-Un. It was to be the launching of the second Destroyer constructed and launched since April. Oops. The description of the non-launch is terrifying. From Fox News:

North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un was left fuming this week when he attended the botched launch of a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer.