Pacific Intentions

Unlike Iran, the United Kingdom, or even the Palestinian Free State, North Korea possesses an independent nuclear deterrent; hence the War Department in the kingdom of the Trumpster and his head-tribble has elected to treat the Democratic Republic with an appropriate lack of casual contempt. Under the pretext of protecting the homeland from the looming threats of Canada, Denmark and the enemy within, the Pentagon predicts a more limited role for the World Cop in deterring the poorer, less populous and less industrialised half of the Korean peninsula from unauthorised re-unification with the other half. Rather, the Pentagon's Asia-Pacific concern will concentrate on protecting Taiwan from the Heathen Chinee, whose history of military aggression over the past half-century has been practically the equal of North Korea's own.