(via NKZone)  Some interesting data on how W's reelection was viewed in N. Korea -

Chinese and western sources say the regime has prepared for a state of siege as it confronts a re-elected US administration determined to break its will and disarm it of nuclear weapons. . . . “The loss of this woman [Kim's wife] was a blow,” said a foreign diplomat. “But John Kerry’s loss in the US election was a harder one. These are now very worried men." [Kim’s] prestige suffered a blow after he gambled and lost on a Kerry victory. The North Koreans played a waiting game through three rounds of nuclear talks in the belief that Kim could cut a better deal with a Democratic administration.

... In President George W. Bush, Kim faces an implacable foe who has signed legislation to help North Korean refugees and to sponsor exiled opponents of the regime.

... Videos of the preliminary trial hearing of Saddam Hussein are said to be circulating among the leadership. Officials fear that the Americans would impose a similar trial if North Korea’s regime were overthrown. There are also suggestions in Beijing that influential North Koreans have been quietly shipping money and assets into China.

Between this and the N. Korean Freedom Act, it's hard to imagine a more effective psyops campaign against this most wretched member of the Axis of Evil.  If the internal senior leadership under this pressure is *really* crumbling the way some have argued, then perhaps the prediction that by 2008, there will be no more N. Korea has some merit.