Biting the dust in Norkland?

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Richard Rail  . . . "How are we to understand this goofball boy who seems to think himself a superhero?  Kim went to school in Switzerland and because of that should speak fair English, should understand Western thinking and Western styles.  But the lessons must not have taken.  He dresses like Mao in a bad mood and combs his hair like a clown going to a prom.  When you look as silly as Kim does, it's hard to credit that this actually is a head of state.

"But he has his hands around the necks of his 24 million countrymen.  They are literally starving and have been for decades, such that they average six inches shorter than their genetically identical brothers across the DMZ.  The North Korean guard who escaped over that DMZ weeks ago was found to have hideous parasites in his body, probably because shortages of fertilizer force northern farmers to use night soil.

"It's fashionable in the West to think of Kim as an outlier among national leaders.  Actually, he's the logical end product of socialism, of big, suffocating government run amok, of the corruption that inevitably sets in when a system isn't required to practice self-restraint by respecting human rights, due process, and rule of law that holds everyone, even the number-one guy, accountable.

"We watch hopefully to see how Donald Trump is going to bring Kim to bay.  We're learning that Trump, contrary to all the nonsense about him, is unusually smart and has an extraordinary sense of timing.  Perhaps his biggest strength is that you always know where you stand with him.  He is straightforward and direct.  He knows how to use power and doesn't fear using it." . . .