Did You Know that Without Imelda Marcos Buying Up Half the World’s Shoe Supply in the 1970s, Kim Il-Sung Would Have Been the Ruler of All Koreas?

There’s too much foreign policy winning going on here.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus defended President Donald Trump’s decision to invite Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, saying the visit is necessary to work together against North Korea.

“This is a different level of problem that we need cooperation among our partners in Southeast Asia,” Priebus told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week.” “The issue on the table is North Korea, and there is nothing right now facing this country and facing the region that is a bigger threat than what’s happening in North Korea.”

Priebus stressed the importance of working with allies in the Pacific in the wake of threats of a nuclear attack from North Korea, and that includes Duterte, despite accusations that he has committed human rights abuses.

Is the different level of problem that Trump is impressed by the human rights violations of the Kim family but can’t speak to them directly so he is going to get some advice from his good buddy Duterte? Perhaps that Trump thinks the Duterte fist logo (above) will cower everyone into submission? Or maybe is it that Trump is planning a surprise attack on North Korea from minor Asian countries and he is therefore meeting with Laotian leadership next week on this? Because otherwise, I got nothing.