North Korea continues to taunt the "imperialist" United States with rhetoric regarding our lion's share of nuclear weapons and its critiques of our leaders, like describing Secretary of State John Kerry as a "wolf with a hideous lantern jaw" or President Obama as a "monkey."
But taking up the pomposity a notch, the state publication DPRK Today resurrected Abraham Lincoln to reprove President Obama from the grave in a letter called "Advice from Lincoln to Obama." (Translation via Associated Press):
Hey, Obama. I know you have a lot on your mind these days… I’ve decided to give you a little advice after seeing you lost in thought before my portrait during a recent Easter Prayer Breakfast…
Hey, Obama, it’s the 21st Century. The tactic by past American presidents, including me, who deceived the people … is outdated. That doesn’t work now. The world doesn’t trust an America that doesn’t take responsibility for what it says.
That's a shot at the president's push for a nuclear-free world while holding on tightly to America's stockpiles. The "Lincoln" letter continues:
If the United States, a country with the world’s largest nuclear weapons stockpile, only pays lip service, like a parrot, and doesn’t do anything actively, it will be a mockery to the entire world.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has issued several threats already this year and has readied his nuclear arsenal as a "preemptive" measure, running drills in preparation for an attack. Kim has authorized the test of long-range rockets and boasted of having miniaturized nuclear warheads at his disposable. Though there is much doubt that the tyrannical state actually has the technology or capabilities it boasts of, let's hope the president won't take the advice of "Lincoln" and will lead by example instead. It's more than obvious that Kim isn't interested in following suit.