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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is being dispatched to Pyongyang in what the White House is calling a high-stakes mission to reverse North Koreas years of progress in math and science.
DeVos, who is expected to arrive in Pyongyang later this week, plans to throw a monkey wrench in North Koreas swiftly advancing nuclear program by replacing its current system of training scientists with a dizzying array of vouchers, sources said.
According to the White House, it is hoped that, after a few weeks in North Korea, DeVos will succeed in returning that nations nuclear program to pre-1970 levels.
At a press briefing announcing the mission, the White House deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, called DeVos our nations best bet to stop North Korea.
If anyone can get North Koreas missiles to start blowing up on the launchpad again, its Betsy, Sanders said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of The 50 Funniest American Writers, and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/betsy-devos-heads-to-north-korea-to-reverse-its-progress-in-math-and-science
applegrove
(118,778 posts)are very worried.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)and they understand that the North has been getting the very wrong kind of education.
It's a scary time for people who live over there.