North Korea sticks to convoluted policy path

Doubts as to whether new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will follow along the curious foreign policy trail blazed by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, seem to have been erased when Mr Kim's government announced earlier this month it would launch a satellite in mid-April to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the country's founder. The announcement flies in the face of ...