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It’s demeaning enough that President Trump plans to travel all the way to Singapore just to “get to know” the genocidal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But it seems Kim is willfully insulting Trump. For only this explains Kim making such a show of fraternizing with the genocidal dictator of Syria, Bashir al-Assad, with… Read more.
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.
I’ve been ridiculing this Annual Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly for years. As I noted in my 2007 commentary on world leaders blowing hot air at UN confabs, most world leaders treat this annual event as little more than an invitation to wine and dine their wives — who spend their days shopping… 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.
And, trust me, giving way to gallows humor is the only way to cope with the apocalyptic rantings and antics of both leaders. President Trump used his harshest language yet to warn North Korea on Tuesday that it will be ‘met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has… 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.
