North Korea coolly covers exhaustion from efforts to get a seat at the adults’ table Diplomacy by missile test, Kim Jong-un’s repeated firing of varied and sundry projectiles into the Sea of Japan not only looks bad—and childish—for him and North Korea, it marks a new low in how nations communicate, or attempt to communicate, […]
War of words wanes as U.S. lauds Kim, Pyongyang readies nuclear weapons What could be more unnerving than heads of ostensible democracies who think they know better than the people what’s best for their nations? Well, for one thing, when those same heads of state engage in puffing up of their rooster chests while endlessly […]
People of North Korea and U.S. on edge as blustery leaders rattle radioactive sabers North Korea “is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the U.S.” So says, the deputy ambassador to the U.N. from the Asian nation. Of course, the question is Does the U.S.—or more specifically the executive branch—“desire” war. […]
In India and North Korea, the U.S. sees burgeoning ally and old enemy expanding WMD programs Remember the ancient adage, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”? Such is the case in the growing coziness between the United States and India. We had been in a frosty relationship with the South Asian nation, primarily […]
ULTIMATE ERROR novelist reviews Doomsday Clock’s recent jump forward ORLANDO, ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA—4:52 a.m. It may be a few minutes before 5:00 a.m. here in Florida, U.S.A., but it’s two and a half minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. On Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their symbolic clock […]
Remarkable are the effects of political nepotism and delusional entitlement on the minds of despots. They’re inclined to see the public at-large as a great impediment to their doing exactly as they wish at all times. Psychopathic spoiled brats handed the mantle of tyranny by their psychopathic forebears maintain a relationship with the public for […]
Governments in South Sudan and North Korea focus on weapons and killing, while everyday citizens starve to death A popular rally cry these days is, “America shouldn’t be the world’s police force” and, while there’s some common sense in that, there is a price to be paid for enlightenment. Little of any significance (and NOTHING […]
Another disturbing, anti-American propaganda video emerges from Pyongyang, but is it bluster in lieu of any real power against the West? One of the oldest political tricks in the book – quite literally, if you take the searing, satirical representation of it in George Orwell’s 1945 classic Animal Farm – involves a leader, especially an […]