Megalomania well-fed

It was certainly convenient for Donald Trump to solve a problem at the Singapore summit that he himself helped create by overplaying the threat that Kim Jong Un actually posed to the United States and the world.

I am aware that Kim has nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that are capable of reaching the U.S., but he has yet to prove that his nuclear warheads would survive re-entry into the atmosphere. Even if his warheads had such capabilities, he must know that North Korea would not survive the massive retaliation from the U.S. if he had the temerity to launch even one missile in our direction. He himself would no doubt survive in one of his bunkers deep underground, but he must know that he would never be able to return to a surface that would remain radioactive long after his death.

Kim has obviously enjoyed the attention he has received since becoming Fearless Leader, and that attention reached a peak in the summit he had with the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. Megalomaniacs crave attention; it’s their drug. The reason for that attention is that North Korea possesses nukes. The surrender of those weapons would instantly reduce him to insignificance in world affairs. We’ll still be talking about those weapons in 2028.

I find it confusing that, after facing down the mighty USSR in the Cold War, we have seemingly quaked in fear of Kim and his minuscule nation.

Kim is so definitive of a megalomaniac that future megalomaniacs will have plastic statues of him on the dashboards of their limousines. This is, of course, a joke since megalomaniacs only allow statues of themselves.

ED CHESS Little Rock