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North Korea’s Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said President Donald Trump’s tough tweets toward Pyongyang were adding to a “vicious cycle” of tensions. Han said if the U.S. shows any sign of “reckless” military aggression, Pyongyang is ready to launch a pre-emptive strike of its own.

blandsten:

The ruler of North Korea and the President of the United States…

One, a crazy-haired, preening, caricature from an insular clan of pathological megalomaniacs and kleptocrats who systematically loot the public from one generation to the next; an ignorant, churlish buffoon devoid of empathy, decency, and self-control; holding his populous hostage, in a cruel lampoon of democracy; leading a hard-core, hate-based, minority cult of partisan zealots and apparatchiks; isolated and despised around the world for undermining international norms; keeping the global community in a constant state of terror by his willingness to trigger Armageddon -- on an egotistic whim -- and burn down the entire planet in a fit of self-absorbed rage…just because he can.

The other, of course, is Kim Jong-Un.

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