The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday 16 January 2018

DONALD TRUMP'S THREATS ARE SPASMS OF A FRIGHTENED LUNATIC: NORTH KOREA'S JIBE AT US PRESIDENT


After a brief hiatus, North Korea has resumed its verbal assault against US President Donald Trump. And the country's latest jibe at the US President tells the world that his acts are like 'spasms of a lunatic'.

The trigger behind the latest outburst was Donald Trump's 'nuclear button' tweet on 3rd January. In his typical fashion to exact fire and fury against North Korea through his tweets, Trump hit back on North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's claims that the later had a nuclear button on his table and the whole America was in the striking range of his nuclear missiles.

Adding humiliating and stinging words for Kim Jong-un's and his predecessors' rule, calling it a depleted and food starved regime, Trump asserted that he, too, had a nuclear button which really worked, and in fact was a much bigger and more powerful one than Kim Jong-un's.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times'. Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my button works!
- Donald Trump on Twitter

Though it took two weeks for North Korea to hit back, probably due to the recent thaw in ties with South Korea and the North's participation in the Winter Olympics in the South next month, the verbal retort from the country was equally humiliating and stinging, mocking Trump on a scale that could match the buzz created by his tweet a fortnight ago.

A commentary in North Korea's state-run publication Rodong Sinmun called Trump's 'bigger nuclear button' tweet warning a bluff, 'just a spasm of a lunatic frightened by the might of North Korea,' by a person who has the habit and making reckless remarks, "Recently, Trump who is crazy about the hostile policy toward North Korea, has once again stunned the world by twitting that he has a 'big and strong nuclear button.' After these reckless remarks were twitted, they have become the target of scoff and criticism."

Using choicest of words for him, like North Korea has been doing all along, the commentary added, "The spasm of Trump in the New Year reflects the desperate mental state of a loser who failed to check the vigorous advance of the army and people of the DPRK." Trump's mental health has been a favourite theme in North Korea's anti-America propaganda and the country has used terms like 'psychopath and mentally deranged dotard'.

And like the country has done in past, time and again, alleging Trump of escalating tension and ratcheting up war rhetoric, the commentary further said that the tweet, in fact, revealed who wants peace and who wants a nuclear war, "Experts on the Korean issue said that it is not fitting for the president to put the dangerous and serious issue like a nuclear war on twitter and it is an irresponsible behaviour leading the situation to the brink of a war."

Trump, in fact, was widely panned after this 'nuclear button' tweet. Critics said the tweet would needlessly provoke North Korea at a time when the North had declared itself a nuclear power and the possibility of a nuclear war was more real than ever.

Also, after persistent demand from different quarters, Twitter, in fact, had to issue clarification that Trump's tweet did not violate rules against abusive behaviour.

NORTH KOREA AND THE US

Tension between North Korea and the US has heightened to unprecedented levels since Donald Trump became US President last year.

Trump has been an advocate of adopting tough measures against the North, a rogue nation that is seen as a terror sponsor and nuclear proliferator.

Last year's successful inter-continental ballistic missile and nuclear tests by the North only added to it.

Comments like 'North Koreans will be met with fire and fury this world has never seen before' or 'the rocket-man or madman, Trump's inventions for Kim Jong-un, will be tested like never before' are common.

The North, in response, has its own range of words for Trump like 'a gangster fond of playing with fire', 'unprecedented rude nonsense', 'frightened dog', 'psychopath', 'mentally deranged dotard' or the latest one, 'spasms of a lunatic'.

©SantoshChaubey