Historical Economy

Despite Tin-Pot Tessie's cultural and political affinities with the régime in North Korea, she has condemned the latest missile launch as a "reckless provocation," unlike any rains of fire and fury threatened by her friend the Trumpster, and entirely unlike the present military buildup in South Korea by the USA and its chums. To Western minds the missile launch inevitably conjures up ghosts of the traumatic era where Korean history begins: namely the Korean war, in which both Japan and the USA were invaded, carpet-bombed and subjected to savage atrocities by North Korea and its quisling helpers. Among the war's victims was Kishi Nobusuké, benefactor of Manchukuo and comforter of women; who also happened to be the maternal grandfather of the present Japanese prime minister. North Korea's persistent missile launches are of concern to Britain because they inconvenience many more fish than the ongoing rampage in Yemen by the head-chopping House of Saud's crusaders for British values. Although Japan's response to the Recrudescent Imperium's orders for a trade deal independent of Euro-wog interference has thus far been lukewarm, the stability of Japanese fish is considered vital to the Government's plans for massively expanding Britain's command of the international chips and vinegar market.