Too many no-win scenarios with North Korea

A recent survey noted people who could find North Korea on a map were more inclined to support diplomatic resolutions to the nuclear weapons crisis surrounding that isolated totalitarian state, while those who didn’t know where it was were likely to support a military resolution.

Maps can be difficult. More appropriate might be to locate the communist Asian country by using a nighttime satellite photo of the region.

Here, North Korea is easy to find — it’s the big black hole surrounded by a ring of lights.

There are many things about this isolated country people might not know. For starters, t...