It really is all gloom and doom lately. In this country there have been two terrorist atrocities with major loss of life. Yesterday a bungled act of terrorism resulted in a number of people being injured. Then last week there was the terrible fire in a block of flats in London. I should be very surprised if the death toll doesn't rise much higher.
Then yesterday the death was reported of the American student who got into trouble in North Korea and had been in a coma for about a year. It all looks very suspicious indeed. Fifteen years' hard labour for nicking a poster is a horribly excessive sentence, but not out of keeping with what one might expect from a dictatorship. What the hell was he doing in a country like that, and what possessed him to take the poster? Whatever the reason, he didn't deserve what happened to him.
Meanwhile we still have the strong and stable one, who seems hell bent on hanging on to power whatever it takes. Even if that means forming a dodgy alliance with some very dubious people in order to do so.
The world could be such a lovely place, if it weren't for the people who live in it.
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