Bad Moon Rising

Sinister developments continue in Korea, where the South has elected a president who favours, of all things, lasting peace with the global menace to the north, despite the latter's fanatical persistence in blowing up fish in the Sea of Japan. Although he is apparently among the very few people to have attained prominence in the last year or two without the direct intervention of Vladimir Putin, Moon Jae-in has already threatened to reconsider the Thaad missile defence system, about whose purpose Britain's leading liberal newspaper is wholly in agreement with Washington. That the new president is a former human rights lawyer who won by a landslide after his predecessor was impeached for corruption, can only increase concerns in the free world that the Trumpster may yet take sufficient offence to decide that any impending nuclear war might just as well extend over the whole peninsula.