Kim Jong-un doesn't appear to know what he's looking for
In heavy metal bands, as the old joke goes, real men keep their amps permanently turned up to eleven.
North Korean rhetoric operates on a similarly Spinal Tap-ish principle. In response to a toughening of UN sanctions, on Thursday the country cancelled a hotline and non-aggression pact with the South and called on its army to prepare "to annihilate the enemy". Amidst the noise, though, both heavy metal bands and North Korea face the same problem: what to do when you really want to make a point? How do you crank it up even further?
A gentler but still menacing metaphor is Aesop's fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf.… Seguir leyendo »