STRAIGHT TALK
MARK BARNES: Nuked-up North Korea just wants to be a big boy
‘Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are examples of how inherited authority and democracy can fail’
Fight! Once it had finally got to that, you’d head down to the netball fields — close enough to draw a crowd and yet out of sight of the teachers’ staff room. You’d draw a line in the sand, literally, and if he crossed it, the fight was on. Win or lose, the cardinal rule was: hit first, hit hard. More often than not the cause of the fight was nothing worthwhile. After a bit of blood, sweat and tears, the punch-up was over, the boys shook hands, made friends and we headed back to the classrooms to face the real enemy: the teachers. Whatever it is that North Korea and the US want to fight about, they’re drawing a lot of lines in the sand and making all kinds of threats. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are examples of how inherited authority and democracy can fail. I can’t imagine any two world leaders I would trust less (okay, maybe a couple) than those two, with the codes and authority to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and ...
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