Keep the finger off the red button

The escalation of the word war between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and United States President Donald Trump reached fever pitch at the end of this week when most of us were not listening. While we were busy worrying about our domestic problems -- the fraternity hazing that snuffed out another young man’s life in the wake of a spate of teenaged killings in Metro Manila, and the ghosts of Martial Law past that visited the rallyists on the National Day of Protest -- suddenly we were jolted by the tempers of both leaders flaring across the Korean peninsula.

After signing an order earlier in the week broadening his power to target people and organizations transacting business with North Korea. Trump uttered in his United Nations address a warning that the communist nation would be destroyed if it threatened the US.