Socialist Worker sort-of-defends North Korea
After sidling into mealy-mouthed defence of Al Qaeda and its allies in Mali (9 February), Socialist Worker of 23 February attempts a sort-of-defence of the North Korean regime. SW says that North Korea's nuclear weapons tests have "nothing to do with anti-imperialism or socialism". However, it declares the North Korean government not to blame for those tests. All the blame lies with the US and its allies. SW says that North Korea is "a nuclear bogeyman created by the US". SW cannot mean to say that North Korea really has no nuclear weapons (i.e. the story that it has them has been manufactured...