At last, the United States is making a stand against South Korea’s determination to have nuclear weapons that will reach the United States. The cartoon by Gary Markstein in the Chronicle on 8/4/17 leads one to believe that Markstein could sympathize with Kim Jong Un. Putting a President of the United States in such a cartoon, be it a political statement or not, was in extremely poor taste; publishing such a cartoon in a quality newspaper was in equally poor taste.