A review of Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant

North Korea&#x2019;s opacity is all but impregnable. Its neighbors, Russia and China, are dictatorships that work ever more diligently to control the speech of their citizens, but the two have got nothing on the Hermit Kingdom&#x2019;s totalitarianism. Even the most rudimentary facts about what&#x2019;s