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It's Friday, September 22, 2017, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

The thing about asymmetrical warfare is it puts the superpower in a bind.

So when Donald Trump began calling Kim Jong-un a rocket man,

oh, that seemed like fun in games, but it did open up the US to counter attack.

Now, in the stages nuclear, the US has most of the chits.

We have overwhelming superiority.

The North Koreans at this point probably can't even reach us with a missile,

but when the weapons are words and the battleground is Twitter,

all of that goes out the window.

So by engaging in a war of words instead of say a war of war,

or my choice, a non-war of diplomatic strategy.

Right. But by doing that, Donald Trump evened the playing field.

So now, Kim responds, accusing the US president of being a mentally deranged dodered.

A dodered? Yes, a dodered.

As Miriam Webster's dictionary, helpfully tweeted,

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