North Korea at the Brink

Speaking to the Herald de Paris last week, Gotham Chopra recalled one of his last conversations with his friend Michael Jackson, in which Chopra and Jackson discussed the two American journalists still being held in North Korea. Learning that one of the journalists, Euna Lee, has a four year-old daughter, an “anguished” Jackson apparently contemplated going to North Korea to ask Kim Jong Il to free them:

“Do you think,” he said hesitantly, “that the leader of North Korea could be a fan of mine?”