( CNN) Like all of President Donald Trump's adversaries, Kim Jong Un now has a catchy nickname — “Rocket Man.”
Trump will always be Trump , no matter international protocol or the gravity of a national security crisis.
Yet taunting Kim, as Trump did on Sunday in a tweet, cannot disguise a sobering reality that the North Korean dictator is winning his race to twin a nuclear bomb and a long-range weapon that could reached US soil. Meanwhile, White House aides who have said that diplomacy is the preferred US option are talking tough — escalating their rhetoric as Trump debuts at the United Nations General Assembly.
