THE DOTARD AND THE JUCHE BIRD: Kim Jong Un may have gotten the world’s attention with his fiery threats to President Trump and use of the Google-busting term “dotard” to describe the U.S. president. But it’s top North Korean diplomat Ri Yong-ho’s statement that Pyongyang may test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific — what some in the arms control community call a “Juche Bird” — that’s also setting leaders on edge.
Experts took as much notice of Kim’s delivery of last night’s statement as they did its content. The dictator sat at an ornate wooden desk, held his notes and looked at the camera as he spoke directly to Trump, even using the first person. “I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue,” Kim said of Trump’s threat this week to “totally destroy” North Korea if the U.S. or its allies are in danger. “Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation.
