North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-Un has taken a page from G.O.P. presidential candidate and front-runner, Donald Trump’s bloviating playbook by announcing to the world that his regime has successfully tested a Hydrogen bomb. Nuclear experts around the globe, however, are uniformly saying that all the evidence points to the North Korean Dictator’s claim as being a big fat lie, but you have to give Kim Jong-Un style points for recognizing that in today’s climate, the bigger the lie, the more likely the claim will gain traction somewhere. Just ask Donald Trump!
Of course, this is North Korea that we’re talking about, where an estimated twenty-five million citizens accept any word that comes from their dictator’s mouth as gospel truth - under pain of imprisonment, torture or death I should add, but odds are there are thousands of terrorists and militants worldwide who are instantly convinced of the accuracy of Kim Jong-Un’s claim. After all, ignorance is bliss, and what could be more salacious for a crowd of blood-thirsty terrorists than the notion of unleashing a hydrogen bomb upon their enemies?
Recognizing the propaganda value that reports of a successful hydrogen bomb test would produce for Kim Jong-Un’s regime back home, it’s still a bit troubling to consider that the North Korean leader would be stupid enough to think that the rest of the technologically-advanced nuclear world would be hoodwinked by his grandiose announcement, but stranger things have happened, and when it comes to the North Korean leader’s proclivity for bloviating, nothing appears beyond the pale.
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