More North Korean football references

Thanks to a post by comics writer Dan Mishkin, I’ve managed to add to more examples to this array of the “Lucy pulls the football away” concept being applied to the recent discussions with North Korea.

 

And that, of course, is just its use in cartoons. There’s plenty of use of this analogy in op/eds, such as  Trump won’t be Charlie Brown to Kim’s Lucy with the football  at The Hill and Did North Korea just yank the football — and Trump’s Nobel Prize — away? at the Los Angeles Times, and usage at The Washington Post and CNBC, and Washington Examiner, and the Korea Times, and I just stopped searching after that.

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