Eli Lake, Columnist

How Drones and Korean Pop Could Bring Down Kim Jong-Un

Defectors from North Korea are using drones to deliver USB sticks containing music and shows from the South.

May 31, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC

Corrected

May 31, 2016 at 8:33 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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The only time I visited North Korea, Kim Jong-Il was the dictator and Madeleine Albright was the U.S. secretary of state. I was part of her press entourage when she traveled to the Hermit Kingdom at the end of 2000.

For the reporters with Albright, Pyongyang was like a museum after business hours. Minders allowed us to tour a department store with barren shelves and no customers. The menu at our hotel had pages of items, but the only food actually available was noodles and kimchi.