North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is nothing if not consistent. His incompetent (and unremittingly cruel) leadership extends not only to his miserable domestic record. Kim is proving to be a disaster on the international scene as well.

Consider: The North Korean dauphin has managed to push South Korean president Park Geun-hye and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe into each other’s arms. This despite the fact that the two have what can only be described charitably as a “frosty” relationship, owing to Prime Minster Abe’s record of historical revisionism and occasional outright denial of his country’s crimes against Korea in the first half of the twentieth century.