It's
the hallmark of a pantomime villain who's put out to find Widow Twankey's protruding
belly is frightening the children more than he does. Because on the
international stage, North
Korea has become a sideshow; and it's
throwing its toys well and truly out of the pram because of it.
To be fair, you can see where they're coming from. As recently as last December, The Democratic People's
Since then, every despot, crackpot and whatnot in the Middle East and North Africa has been doing their level best to take
So now this: grandstanding. Calling the Americans out like a drunk in a bar. The whole thing is just tinged with desperation. What have they become? What's happened to the nation that humbled the mighty
Well, for one, there’s been a change of personnel at the top. And whilst DPRK is still keeping it in the family, Kim Senior left some pretty big size 4 shoes to fill. On his watch
It’s not that the new boss, Kim Jong-un, hasn’t tried hard enough to arrest this decline. Far from it. The ‘Pyongyang Pretender’ has done everything short of defecating on the American flag in order to get noticed. But then that’s precisely the point. No doubt haunted by comparisons to Jordi Cryff, Kasper Schmeichel and Calumn Best, Jong-un the youngun (as he’s affectionately known there), has turned into something of a drama queen in a frantic attempt to avoid becoming his father’s footnote in history.
This is not the North Korean way. By all means be a threat to world peace, that's what you do best, but please try and be a little bit less showy with it. Remember the quiet dignity of your secret nuclear weapons programme? Oh how we feared you then, but we also respected you. You wouldn’t give anybody the time of day; you just kept on denying you were building those nuclear weapons, even though we all knew you really were. You’re young Kim, and you’re learning you’re trade, I get that. Just don’t pimp yourselves out to the world’s press talking about this ‘rocket’ or that ‘space satellite’. Leave that to the media whores in
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