Keeping track of women’s hemlines is, admittedly, an unusual way to judge the mind-set of a country’s leader. But that is just what veteran North Korea watchers have resorted to in trying to peer into one of the world’s most isolated countries and divine what its new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is thinking. For weeks now, those analysts have puzzled over photos of women sporting miniskirts and heels in downtown Pyongyang, a stunning change from the years when Western wear was mostly shunned in favor of billowy traditional dresses or drab Mao-style work uniforms. But enough about that: Hosni Mubarak (brown streak in picture) was abruptly moved from the relative comfort of a military hospital back to prison yesterday after the country’s public prosecutor ruled that he was fit to serve his time behind bars. A medical committee that was convened to review Mr. Mubarak’s medical condition decided that he needed only routine medical care, according to a statement by Adel el-Said, the spokesman for the prosecutor. That finding apparently ruled out a transfer abroad or to another medical facility, which Mr. Mubarak’s lawyers have demanded, and within hours, Mr. Mubarak was transferred back to Tora Prison, from where he should never have been allowed to venture. He was like a skidmark on the recently-washed underpants of Egyptian society, and he should have just been left to rot in the slammer. Better yet, they should have burned him alive.
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