Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump: different yet similar

Seoul

IN many ways, the two leaders on either side of the North Korea-United States missile stand-off could not be more different. In others, they are startlingly similar.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has just overseen his second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, bringing much of the US mainland within reach and presenting US President Donald Trump with a crisis.

But while Pyongyang has long issued bellicose threats of nuclear war, this time it is the leader of the United States of…