All options are on the table

The stern warning delivered by US President Donald Trump to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un: “All options are on the table. Kim Jong-un and his regime have again signalled their contempt for their neighbours, for all the members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behaviour.“

This last warning by Trump sounded familiar to North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un. He has accustomed to Trump’s silly outbursts, and therefore he’s not bowing out now. He just does not give a damn!

The prospect of war between the US, Japan, South Korea on one side and North Korea on the other, is getting closer day by day. The provocation by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has reached its limits after another missile launch over Japan. China said that tensions in the Korean Peninsula are now at “a tipping point...”, as a chilling statement by the South Korean minister of Defence was sent immediately to Kim Jong-un in which he threatened him with ‘extermination’ if he continues threatening the security of the South Korean people with his nuclear weapons and missiles.

Why did the world’s great powers allow North Korea to develop nuclear weapons? Why did the world’s great powers drive the peninsula towards an extreme level of explosion? Why didn’t they respond with some tough counter-measures? There was plenty of time to take some form of action and deter it from advancing in its missile development. Look at North Korea’s chilling achievement now....

Kim Jong-un poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, as well as to other countries around the world. Joseph Muscat and Adrian Delia can do nothing to solve this business except perhaps watch with trepidation, and neither can Theresa May, confounded as she is with her Brexit madness. Who knows, maybe Trump will wake up and stop his peculiar outbursts against American journalists to try and clear once and for all the enveloping fog that is looming in the Korean Peninsula. Jos Edmond Zarb Birkirkara