PATRICK BULGER: A tale of two scary clowns
'Does this living monument to abusing humans that is NoKo bother Trump?'
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Is it possible that in the magnitude and depth of Trump's ignorance lies the secret that could unlock the path to a united and prosperous Korea, defusing a potential global flashpoint and unleashing a slew of new, unpronounceable brand names? What really worries the professional diplomats who've made careers of not talking to North Korea is that Trump's reality-TV/real-estate-agent approach to world problems might actually work. They needn't fret.
The Nobel peace prize for Trump - race-baiter, other-hater and another good reason to never trust a redhead? Kim would have to share it, if fair's fair, and his record doesn't exactly invite comparison with the Dalai Lama's and scream "peace prize".
The love-in between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore this week demonstrated in its full luridness the final triumph in world affairs of celebrity over substance, of showmanship over diplomacy. Of floss over gravity. If the big winner is idiocy and TV ratings, the big losers are diplomacy, principle and the poor buggers who live in subhuman conditions in North Korea (or NoKo, as Trump calls it in his tweets, to give it the Disney ring that is his style). The great and good of the global diplomacy racket are tut-tutting and holding thumbs that nothing comes of Trump's made-for-TV folly majeure. Until Trump came along the US had followed a strict policy of not talking to the big guy (as Trump would call him) in NoKo, namely Kim, and before him, his dad and granddad, who apparently is still not officially dead, although he is as dead as one gets in that country, which is very.Can we really expect a new Kim, a change from the guy who has people who annoy him executed by blasting...
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