Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Getty/KCNA/Salon)
You know how far it is from Damascus to Pyongyang? It’s 4,600 miles. If they had air service between the two outlaw capitals, it would be about an eight-and-a-half-hour flight, about as long as it takes you to fly from Dallas to London. But the two cities may as well be a million hours and a zillion miles apart when you consider how differently they are treated by the United States.
Let’s begin with North Korea. A country of 25 million people, the vast majority of whom are impoverished peasants, North Korea …read more
Source: Salon
