It is good to know that the war of words between two men who are wielding nuclear power, Donald Trump of the USA and Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean leader, seems to have come to an end.
Trump had threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea in a recent speech to the UN. He had said that Kim was “obviously a mad man who would be tested like never before”.
In response, Kim had accused Trump of being “mentally deranged and would pay dearly for his threats”. Kim had said in a televised statement, that North Korea could test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
In retallation, Trump had said that his “nuclear button was much bigger and more powerful and it worked”. In effect that would have meant that the future of the world and our lives, and the lives of our posterity, were in the hands of one or two persons.
These two leaders were at logger heads not too long ago. The coming to terms of these leaders is good news for the world at large since the triggering of a nuclear weapon by either of these two would mean the end of the world as we know it now.
It now transpires that Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from Kim to hold a meeting to discuss the future of that country’s nuclear programme. He has tweeted that “a deal with north Korea is very much in the making”
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
