North Korea says it can miniaturize nuclear weapons

By Harry, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong 
from: http://www.asiaobserver.org/asian-political-cartoons 

This political cartoon shows the North Korean leader, Kim Jung-un and his officials "miniaturizing" their nuclear weapons. The cartoon uses symbolism and exaggeration. Symbolism is shown through the general behind Kim Jung-un who is measuring Kim Jung-un's hear to make it become exact and straight. This symbolizes that Kim Jung-un seemingly has everything done for him by those who are near him. Exaggeration would be from the facial expressions of the characters of the cartoon. The cartoonist portrayed Kim Jung-un as a very "mean looking" and stubborn while the other generals look similar to each other, tired, and sad. By the techniques he used, the cartoonist seems to have a very strong opinion about the event that he wants to show. The event seems to be about the issue of North Korea having weapons that could be deadly to the world but them trying to make it look like "it not a big deal" by deceptive ways. The cartoonist's view on this seems to be that North Korea is cheating and tricking everyone to believing something that isn't true. It also seems like the cartoonist is saying that Kim Jung-un can't do much by himself. I feel like the cartoon is strongly bias, although there are true aspects to it. I think I would have agreed with the article much more if it didn't have so much bias in it in that it shows only a one sided view of the issue. I think what they could have used is analogy where they compared the issue to another one so that the audience can understand where the cartoonist's view is originating from.