In a nod to Easter, this cartoon by Adams from The Telegraph portrays North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a boiled egg. The title of the cartoon "Bad Egg" is a play on words since a bad egg is someone who behaves in a bad or dishonest way. • He's a bad egg - don't believe anything he says.
BACKGROUND
US military drills in South Korea have prompted a fresh round of threats from North Korea in the past week, with leader Kim Jong-un ordering that the military be on standby to hit the US mainland with missiles. The isolated communist state stepped up its pugnacious rhetoric still further yesterday by warning Seoul that the Korean Peninsula was entering "a state of war".
COMMENTARY
The green mushroom cloud emanating from the top of the cracked egg is a reference to North Korea's threats of an "all-out nuclear war". The cloud is green because the egg is bad.
VOCABULARY
A boiled egg is usually served in an egg cup.

