In 2004, when "Team America World Police" was first released, the prospect of Jim Jong-Il, the always offensively insane yet seemingly marginalized dictator-for-life democratically elected leader of North Korea being a serious threat to world stability seemed humorous at best. Oh sure, he was a threat to the South Koreans and Japanese, but he seemed more interested in putting on musicals and getting Elvis haircuts then in flexing international muscle.
No longer. The little dictator is now threatening to wipe the U.S. off the map. Which I suppose is par for the course for dicatorships today. Still, with North Korea playing the victim card and trying to blame the U.S. for trying to provoke a second Korean War, we do need to keep on our toes.
Besides, do we really want another Korean War anyway? The only good things that came out of that last one were one-half a penisula that lives in the 21st Century and an overrated movie that spawned a TV show that ran for 12 years.
So get ready America. Kim Jong-Il is on the march. Just as soon as watches 20 movies from a country he claims to despise to its very core.
–Stephen Payne, Editor, Oil and Gas Investor This Week; www.OilandGasInvestor.com; spayne@hartenergy.com
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