In comparing U.S. President Donald J. Trump to how Saanich News editorial cartoonist I. Rice frames DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in “Lit Match of the Century”, Trump comes off extremely well. For instance: What red-blooded male would not be pleased to be dubbed “a rogue”? Sure, Trump is insulted, derided and even slandered, but at least he is not accused of being a serial murderer and the devil incarnate wrapped up in one.
For I. Rice, I suppose, there is the default expectation that the readers of the SaanichNews must unanimously group-hate Chairman Kim Jong-un. In the media barrage we live in, the most preposterous things claimed about the leader of the Juche Socialist nation are to be accepted hook, line and sinker.
Just as the Kuwaiti incubator baby story was foisted upon us, concocted by a U.S. public relations firm, later followed by the earnest Iraqi WMD threat, many forget they were cold-hardheartedly diabolical hoaxes with the purpose of achieving public approval for waging military invasion, regime change, and western occupation of Iraq. In between those two wars, there was one against Yugoslavia, based on more lies. The resumption of the Korean War is a U.S.A. work-in-progress using similar techniques.
If Trump is a “vindictive, vicious bully”, as I. Rice claims as fact, then what were both Bushes, the Clintons and Obama? “…We came, we saw…he died…ha, ha, ha…”, a jubilant U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton extolled of the NATO mafia hit contract on Libya’s leader that led to untold misery in that country.
I. Rice’s cartoon prompts me to take the unknown risks to declare how delighted I am by the plucky DPRK leader and his loyal and industrious comrades. The more they collectively thumb their noses at the sanctimonious, murderous imperialists in the west (especially the real “rogue nation” of the world: the U.S.A.) and succeed at their weapons and missile national defence programs, the more I cheer the rebels.
Before I dig my grave any further in the land of “freedom of expression” and tolerance, let me simply say I am on side with Dennis Rodman when it comes to the current DPRK leader. I will even agree with Trump who said, “He’s a smart cookie.”
Gregory Duffell
Saanich
