2018 Apr 22 - North Korea's Stopping it's Nuclear Testing
On Saturday morning the world awoke to the news that North Korea had promised to give up its nuclear testing and missile launches. And I'm guessing Kim Jong Un woke up with an absolute stinker of a hangover and vaguely remembered making promises the previous night that he maybe regretted the morning after the night before. For him, I imagine phoning up Donald Trump at midnight is his equivalent of phoning an ex-girlfriend 10 minutes before the pub closes.
Maybe I'm being disingenuous and this was all a result of weeks of diplomacy, strategic use of twitter, a grand combination of Chinese economic intervention, John Bolton bringing fresh ideas to the diplomatic table maybe some more tweets from president Trump, some nudging from the Russians and some additional twitter diplomacy with Fox & Friends of course being kept in the loop at all times.;
Or perhaps it's just that the North Koreans's have finally figured out that Uranium is pretty expensive and that they've had to decide between Kim's taste for nuclear weapons and his taste for, well, anything on a plate, he's not fussy. He prefers chocolate cake to uranium yellowcake and I'd make some joke about the type of "rocket" that's green, leafy and makes up a salad except he's more the sort of chap that orders a dozen fried crispy wontons for a starter. I suppose I'd do the same mind if I lived right next to China.
It's only when North Korea returns to the news though that you realise how lucky we have it in the west. The UK government recently lost the paperwork for the Windrush generation and as a result they'll likely receive compensation. In North Korea the government is somewhat more strict about people having the correct documentation and their definition of a 'labour camp' makes the uk Labour Party's summer camp discussing Brexit policy look quite appealing in comparison. Well I don't know, 10 years in the frozen tundra vs 10 days listening to Emily Thornberry devising a coherent foreign policy. And you know I still prefer Kim's fondness for fried chicken compared to Jeremy Corbyn's veganism.
Maybe I'm being disingenuous and this was all a result of weeks of diplomacy, strategic use of twitter, a grand combination of Chinese economic intervention, John Bolton bringing fresh ideas to the diplomatic table maybe some more tweets from president Trump, some nudging from the Russians and some additional twitter diplomacy with Fox & Friends of course being kept in the loop at all times.;
Or perhaps it's just that the North Koreans's have finally figured out that Uranium is pretty expensive and that they've had to decide between Kim's taste for nuclear weapons and his taste for, well, anything on a plate, he's not fussy. He prefers chocolate cake to uranium yellowcake and I'd make some joke about the type of "rocket" that's green, leafy and makes up a salad except he's more the sort of chap that orders a dozen fried crispy wontons for a starter. I suppose I'd do the same mind if I lived right next to China.
It's only when North Korea returns to the news though that you realise how lucky we have it in the west. The UK government recently lost the paperwork for the Windrush generation and as a result they'll likely receive compensation. In North Korea the government is somewhat more strict about people having the correct documentation and their definition of a 'labour camp' makes the uk Labour Party's summer camp discussing Brexit policy look quite appealing in comparison. Well I don't know, 10 years in the frozen tundra vs 10 days listening to Emily Thornberry devising a coherent foreign policy. And you know I still prefer Kim's fondness for fried chicken compared to Jeremy Corbyn's veganism.
On Saturday morning the world awoke to the news that North Korea had promised to give up its nuclear testing and missile launches. And I'm guessing Kim Jong Un woke up with an absolute stinker of a hangover and vaguely remembered making promises the previous night that he maybe regretted the morning after the night before. For him, I imagine phoning up Donald Trump at midnight is his equivalent of phoning an ex-girlfriend 10 minutes before the pub closes.
Maybe I'm being disingenuous and this w ......
Maybe I'm being disingenuous and this w ......