We know that, ISIS and Vladimir Putin notwithstanding, North Korea is still the world’s existential trip wire. Kim Jong-unHinged prizes nuclear leverage over food for his people. Heinous priority would be an upgrade.
But the case of Otto Warmbier, 22, bespeaks of a new, depraved low. Imagine capital punishment, in effect, for treating a propaganda poster as a souvenir. Evil incarnate.