I think that even Dennis Rodman has more influence on Kim Jong-un than does our leader Trudeau 2.0.

Inasmuch as both Kim and Justin have big hair and inherited the family business without a scintilla of relevant qualifications to lead a country or as JT calls it a post-national state, you'd think they might have things in common but such seems not to be the case.

If only North Korea was on our southern border, Justin could welcome via tweet millions fleeing the PRNK and then have the RCMP greet them and carry their luggage.

But as it stands, Canada has no influence on the PRNK except for what little it might acquire by forking over a few billion bucks in foreign aide which I think even The Boy Blunder may be reluctant to do.

Speaking once of the need to have and to be willing to deploy hard power as well as just soft power, noted international relations expert Al Capone of Chicago once observed, "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."