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Rocket Man knows better

The United States has to accept the obvious: Kim Jong-un is never going to give up his missiles

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Kim Jong-un -led (centre) North Korea could fire an ICBM into the Pacific Ocean as it had threatened to launch missiles toward Guam, which prompted warnings of retaliation from American military officials | Photo: Reuters

Blaine Harden | NYT
A semi-vanquished enemy is rising zombielike from the crypt of America’s dimly remembered wars. North Korea is gleefully shooting missiles over Japan and splashing them into the Pacific Ocean. With astounding technical felicity, it is building a weapons system that may soon be able to hoist hydrogen bombs into Los Angeles, Chicago or even Manhattan. Meanwhile, two neophyte leaders with strange hair and thin skins are insulting each other in bizarre ways. President Trump called Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man” and threatens to “totally destroy North Korea.” Mr. Kim called Mr. Trump “a mentally deranged U.S. dotard” and threatens to “definitely