I can't help it, but I keep laughing at that North Korean newscaster woman who proudly announced the successful nuclear test her nation's scientists were able to complete.
Her tone, her demeanor was so dripping of the worst kind of propaganda, it's ridiculous. Of course, seeing it over here, I can hardly understand how anyone could actually fall for that silly tone. If they would do it over here, most Dutch people would just switch channels, and chalk it up to the comedy factory or something.
Then again, I ain't North Korean, so I wouldn't know if someone over there could appreciate irony, sarcasm and the like.
The Grand Poobah from PyongYang doesn't really care much for working together with the rest of the world, so all these eternal damnations, calls for embargos aren't effective.
It doesn't hurt. Kim couldn't care less.
And in the meanwhile all the attention is drawn away from Iran. It's a lot like the Billboard Top 100, but instead of the latest hypes in music, it's the latest hypes in people to piss off. Iran was on top of the charts a month ago, but now North Korea are on top of the mountain.
The thing is - even in international diplomacy and global politics - any publicity is better than no publicity.
In two months I guess Venezuela will be making another jump in the charts. You can certainly count on one dictator trying to up-end another, just for the fun of it. After all: Who pisses off Kofi and George and Tony and Vladimir the most?
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