Don’t mess with N Korea’s Kim, he thinks he’s his grandfather
The West and South Korea should think twice about confronting a dictator who’s insecure, and delusional
Their stares are cold, tenacious and emotionless. They appeared bent to rip each other’s jugular out at the drop of the proverbial hat. The irony is that they didn’t – and haven’t, since 1953.
US President Donald Trump promised to send the “powerful” USS Carl Vinson carrier group to the Korean Peninsula last week; after some misstatements and bad press about the “missing armada”, the strike group is now expected to arrive in the Sea of Japan sometime next week.
But one can only suspect that amid the hyperbole of “going it alone”, Trump knows he can’t poke a stick in the eye of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, much as he might want to.
Indeed, the truce brokered between the North and South by the United Nations, for better or worse, continues to hold, making the demilitarised zone (DMZ) one of the world’s most famous oxymorons; the entire border is still filled with millions of live land mines.
Neither side can venture across the border like the charge of the light brigade, which explains why artilleries, flyers and missiles often take the central role in their occasional taunts.
