By Moristotle
Anyone ought to act soon who would like to see Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film classic, Dr. Strangelove, one more time. It may soon be too late: “Kim’s Rejoinder to Trump’s Rocket Man: ‘Mentally Deranged U.S. Dotard’” [Choe Sang-Hun, NY Times, September 21]. Excerpt:
SEOUL, South Korea — Responding directly for the first time to President Trump’s threat at the United Nations to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader called Mr. Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” on Friday and vowed the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.”
The rejoinder by the leader, Kim Jong-un, who is about half as old as Mr. Trump, 71, added to the lexicon of Mr. Kim’s choice of insults in the escalating bombast between the two.
“A frightened dog barks louder,” Mr. Kim said in a statement, referring to Mr. Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in which he vowed to annihilate North Korea if the United States were forced to defend itself or its allies against it.
“He is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician,” Mr. Kim said.[read more]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
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