( CNN) How did it come to this? Kim Jong Un, an unstable and unpredictable dictator, is able to threaten the United States of Americawith what appears to be a viable nuclear weapon.
Whatever the reason, it has set an alarming precedent and does not bode well for those who dread Iran and other global “destabilizers” obtaining “the bomb”.
I have recently returned from a trip-up to the United States and Australia, where the reaction and coverage of the North Korean missile crisis is very different from what we are seeing in Europe — where legislators in the United Kingdom and Brussels are unable to deal with anything other than arguing about Brexit. People are very concerned.
