There are no surprises coming from North Korea now. Every day is a new normal for the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Though his reclusive regime keeps targetting the Western world, Washington is the bull’s eye — Kim scores the highest when his poisoned dart hits the eye in the political board game laid out by geopolitics and military strategies.
Pyongyang has ratcheted up tensions by the day — the diplomatic heat keeps rising a notch every 24 hours. While it was the death of an arrested American student that made headlines on Wednesday as Trump shot another tweet from the hip, North Korea calling Trump an ‘old lunatic’ set tongues wagging yesterday.
With the North Korean crisis throwing up sparks all around the Asia-Pacific, tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at an all time high. Even after Trump threatened North Korea with obliteration, Pyongyang refuses to scale down its bellicose rhetoric.
After the undiplomatic diatribe at Trump, no one knows, what would come today or tomorrow. In the elevated chaos, it was ‘What Happened’ that suffered most. The revealing memoir of Hillary Rodham Clinton took to the shelves on September 12 and remained relatively muted across the globe. The intellectual arguments it was likely to generate about
the most vaunted democratic exercise in the world were dampened by the harrumph of Trump and the hyperventilation of Kim Jong Un as Pyongyang first threatened to shoot a missile at the US Pacific territory of Guam and then continued to keep tensions up on the Korean Peninsula.
If it were not for the North Korean issue, the book would have spawned a grand debate across the globe. But now it is Trump’s rhetoric that rises above all the din — including that of Obamacare repeal. What Happened covers a range
of emotions Hillary passed through during the campaign and after her shocking loss to the New York billionaire who kept calling her ‘crooked Hillary’. She explains in the book how Trump kept breathing down her neck as she walked about the stage during the debate with her maverick rival.
Joint exercises by South Korea and the US near the Korean Peninsula consumed reams of newsprint at a time nerves were taut over what turn events in the region would take. Pyongyang had vowed a vicious retaliation. Trump has earlier blasted North Korea. Since then, a riled Pyongyang tested a series of missiles to cock a snook at the new administration in the White House.
The international community was specially uneasy with reports emerging that the North had tested a Hydrogen Bomb.
Books on presidential victories and defeats have been celebrities in the publishing world. But Hillary has been unlucky as the time of the release did not favour her.
