One Dear Leader to Another

Such is the megalomania of Kim Jong-un that he appears to believe he can attain diplomatic rapport with an authoritarian military theocracy presided over by an overweight thug. Egged on by the weedy liberalism of the South Korean president, whose anti-Trumpsterian activities include supplanting a predecessor who attemped a right-wing coup, Kim proclaimed North Korea's right to an independent nuclear deterrent and implied that in its absence the US and its satraps might be tempted to behave imprudently. In fact, of course, the US and South Korea have committed only one quasi-genocidal assault on the North, which has long been forgotten by everyone who matters. Presumably Kim has been led by his sycophants to imagine that a mere silly haircut has some sort of moral equivalence with a rabid radioactive head-tribble, since few other explanations could account for the crazed arrogance of his posturing.