Mad man gets bomb ?

So what's new, Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, who according to the BBC is said to wear platform shoes, has a bouffant hairstyle, in order to create impression of being taller than his 5 ft 3 inches and enjoys guzzling cognac, and now in a bid to impress the world further he also has nuclear weapons.

The proliferation of nuclear weapons, is unfortunately an inevitable by-product or a world that advances technologically everyday, giving tyrants such as Kim Jong-il the ability to develop these terrifying weapons, despite the fact that he is unable to run a sustainable economy, and has for many years been bailed out by neighbours China.

People of my age, were bought up with the implied threat, that one day the Soviet bloc as it was known, due to its relatively strong military economy, would one day, flex its muscles and advance into Western Europe, of course this never happened, because although not rich by Western standards the Soviet bloc did manage to feed its people, therefore never had the motivation .

North Korea is a different kettle of fish, the country itself is in a desperate state, where it is unable to feed itself and relies on handouts from China, a leader such as Jong-il, may not know how to run an economy, but frankly he has nothing to lose, and certainly knows how to threaten.

It's easy to think that, North Korea, it is no threat to those of us living in Western Europe, and it's a fair point however Kim Jong-il, is not the world's only delusional leader with a twisted and warped ideology, which brings us to a real threat, described as the 'war on terror' which of course many a woolly-minded liberal, talks about with derision as if it doesn't exist.

The fact is, there a very real terror threat, and a war on terror, which in the past couple of years, has been handled in a very poor gung-ho manner. Now, President Bush had no alternative but to go to Afghanistan and sort out the Taleban, what else could he do, Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda callously killed hundreds of Americans, but the invasion of Iraq whilst understandable to me, has been a grave error and for predictable reasons because Saddam Hussein being a another tyrant in the mould of Kim Jong-il, had little reason to be friends with Al-Qaeda as they could only be a threat to him.

I just hope, that President Bush, will get better advice on North Korea than he apparently had on Iraq.