TINY TYRANTS AREN’T IMMUNE TO NATURE’S WHIMS—BUT WE STILL DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON. Panic-buying grips North Korea amid rumors of Kim Jong Un’s demise

“Store shelves in Pyongyang were being cleaned out of everything from liquor to laundry detergent, canned fish to cigarettes in recent days — as conflicting reports continue to surface about the portly dictator’s possible demise, the Washington Post wrote Sunday.”