The maniac in Pyongyang

Why can’t the rest of the world believe that North Korea is doing this in order to deter an American nuclear attack? North Koreans have lived 65 years with the knowledge that the United States could do that whenever it wanted, and it is not maniacal to take out a little insurance against it.

U.S. President Donald Trump could try bribing North Korea into suspending its work on missiles and bombs. That worked once before, but not for very long. There is really nothing useful to be done.Photographs courtesy of Gage Skidmore and Wikipedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 20, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—“This guy, he’s like a maniac, okay? He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn’t play games. And we can’t play games with him. Because he really does have missiles. And he really does have nukes.” So spoke U.S. President Donald Trump...

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