YOU almost have to admire the gall of it. Less than 96 hours after the United Nations announced its “strongest sanctions ever”, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends another ballistic missile sailing over Japan, dropping into the Pacific Ocean, and landing the tough talking diplomats…
YOU almost have to admire the gall of it. Less than 96 hours after the United Nations announced its “strongest measures ever” against the North Korean dictatorship, leader Kim Jong Un sends another ballistic missile sailing over Japan, dropping into the Pacific Ocean, and landing the tough talking diplomats in a sticky mire of humiliation.
I can only imagine the glee on the tin-pot dictator’s face on Friday as he sat back to watch the most powerful nations in the world clamour over each other to condemn in the most certain terms what was essentially the diplomatic equivalent of setting off a firecracker at a wake – no one was harmed, but by God, it pissed people off.
As the most powerful men and women in the world shake their heads, wring their hands, and gather together once more to all agree that their masterplan has once again failed, you’ve got to wonder what’s next.
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After such strong fighting talk from US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, threatening to “take the future of the North Korean nuclear programme out of the hands of its outlaw regime” and imposing the “strongest measures ever” to curb their weapons development, North Korea just raised one giant metaphorical middle finger to western diplomacy.
