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President Trump Tweets Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un on Nuclear Weapons: A Comparison with Climate Change †

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  • David E. Allen

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    Department of Finance, Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan
    School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA 6027, Australia)

  • Michael McAleer

    (Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
    Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3080 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Department of Economic Analysis and ICAE, Complutense University of Madrid, 28080 Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

A set of 125 tweets about North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un by President Trump from 2013 to 2018 are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments of the messages contained, the degree to which they differ, and their implications about President Trump’s understanding and approach to international diplomacy. The results suggest a predominantly positive emotion in relation to tweets about North Korea, despite the use of questionable nicknames such as “Little Rocket Man”. A comparison is made between the tweets on North Korea and climate change, madefrom 2011–2015, as Trump has tweeted many times on both issues. It is interesting to find that Trump’s tweets on North Korea have significantly higher positive polarity scores than his tweets on climate change.

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  • David E. Allen & Michael McAleer, 2018. "President Trump Tweets Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un on Nuclear Weapons: A Comparison with Climate Change †," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-6, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:10:y:2018:i:7:p:2310-:d:156124
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    1. Allen, D.E. & McAleer, M.J., 2018. "Fake News and Indifference to Scientific Fact," Econometric Institute Research Papers TI 2018-054/III, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
    2. Allen, D.E. & McAleer, M.J. & McHardy Reid, D., 2018. "Fake News and Indifference to Truth," Econometric Institute Research Papers EI2018-10, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
    3. David E. Allen & Michael McAleer & David McHardy Reid, 2018. "Fake News And Indifference To Truth: Dissecting Tweets And State Of The Union Addresses By Presidents Obama And Trump," Advances in Decision Sciences, Asia University, Taiwan, vol. 22(1), pages 180-203, December.
    4. David E. Allen & Michael McAleer, 2018. "Fake news and indifference to scientific fact: President Trump’s confused tweets on global warming, climate change and weather," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 117(1), pages 625-629, October.
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    1. David E. Allen & Michael McAleer, 2019. "Fake News and Propaganda: Trump’s Democratic America and Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Germany," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-19, September.
    2. Santiago Alonso García & Gerardo Gómez García & Mariano Sanz Prieto & Antonio José Moreno Guerrero & Carmen Rodríguez Jiménez, 2020. "The Impact of Term Fake News on the Scientific Community. Scientific Performance and Mapping in Web of Science," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-16, May.
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