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Nobody should be surprised that Trump delivered his to Kim by reading it aloud on TV. After all, this P.T. Barnum of politics is all about the show — the consequences be damned. But it’s refreshing to see that Kim is delivering his to Trump by hand. Never mind that this is what any sensible… Read more.
North Korea says its quest for nuclear weapons is ‘complete’ and it ‘no longer needs’ to test its weapons capability, a significant development ahead of diplomatic engagement with both South Korea and the United States. (CNN, April 21, 2018) Trust me folks, this is like Syria saying its conquest of all rebel strongholds is complete… Read more.
President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks by the end of May, an extraordinary development following months of heightened nuclear tension during which the two leaders exchanged frequent military threats and insults. (Washington Post, March 8, 2018) This had everyone in Washington expressing shock and consternation yesterday;… Read more.
And everyone in Washington is dumbfounded … again. President Donald Trump reiterated his bellicose warning to North Korea from earlier in the week, telling reporters at his golf club in New Jersey on Thursday that his threat to bring ‘fire and fury’ if North Korea continued to threaten the United States may not have gone… Read more.
Here is how I framed this recurring international “crisis” just months ago in “Groundhog Day: North Korea Tests Nukes and World Explodes with Outrage … Again,” September 9, 2016. _____________________ North Korea is commanding world attention again, after testing another nuclear bomb. Duly spooked, leaders from China to America are reacting like alarmed parents chastising an… Read more.
North Korea is commanding world attention again, after claiming it tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. Because of the way that they are made, hydrogen bombs are usually much more powerful than their atomic counterparts. That is why people are so worried about North Korea’s announcement — it has already launched atomic bombs, but this… Read more.
Yes folks, he’s at it again…. Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea — the peninsula annexed by Russia last year from Ukraine… On previous trips deep underwater, Putin has explored the Gulf of Finland… Read more.
I must confess that I appreciated hackers exposing the racist banter Sony Chairman Amy Pascal and über producer Scott Rudin engaged in – as “Sony: Leaked E-mails Expose Big-Shot Hollywood Liberals as Closet Racists,” December 12, 2014, will attest. But I never thought those hackers were willing or able to do anything more than cause… Read more.
North Korean President Kim Jong-Il is a temperamental and insecure man. Only this explains his habit of making nuclear threats from time to time. Whenever he does, he commands the international attention he craves so pathologically and extorts the aid his people need so desperately… When it comes to psychological warfare, this North Korean gnome is… Read more.
Given the way real news anchors delivered their “Weekend Update” on former NBA star Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea, one could be forgiven for thinking they were substituting for comedian Seth Meyers on Saturday Night Live. Rodman visited along with a film crew last week to shoot an exhibition basketball game as part of… Read more.
