Kim backs down

Nothing moves in North Korea without Kim Jong-un's say-so. So here is the scenario I believe took place after the week of furious rhetoric. Kim orders his generals to devise a plan to attack Guam. The generals then announce, as if on their own initiative, that they are preparing plans for the Supreme Leader to vet. A few days go by as the rhetoric continues to fly around. Guam itself doesn't seem too phased, there are pictures of women on the beaches in bikinis, but the whole world holds its breath. Then the generals deliver their super plan but they are already talking of just missing Guam instead of hitting it bang in the middle. Rhetoric gets stuck between "Kim will be sorry if he goes ahead with it", and "now what the hell is he up to?" Then Kim, after a "long deliberation" decides to put the ball back in Trump's court by saying that he will wait to see what the crazy yankees will do next. He will not have bothered even looking at his generals' plans because he told them what to write in the first place. But he made it sound as if he had made a sensible strategic decision. We can now all laugh. But it's also a relief to discover he's not mad, and actually wants to live to an old age. The chances are relatively slim, Mr Kim, but keep hoping.