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The Question of North Korea

Korea has the bomb, but not to worry. It's not a crisis. No, we needn't hurry To get inspections back. Why try to spot The weapons they already say they've got?

Calvin Trillin

January 8, 2003

Korea has the bomb, but not to worry. It’s not a crisis. No, we needn’t hurry To get inspections back. Why try to spot The weapons they already say they’ve got? Containment’s fine, no reason for attack. The threat, we’ve said for months, is just Iraq. And why destroy Saddam but still contrive To let this wicked Kim Jong Il survive? Because one wicked tyrant must remain To run against in Bush’s next campaign.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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