Now that’s an oxymoron.

Diplomacy is about speaking softly and nuancing words to get the other side to agree to your terms.

In short, it’s a job for refined ladies and gentlemen, stupid!

All others need not apply.

By the way, this is a universal rule adopted by the international community.

And so what’s eating this minor Asian-American embassy functionary who badmouthed a Filipina whom he almost ran over recently?  Or shall we say what’s he eating to emit such vile verbal vomit?  Stinky kimchi?

We can’t help but be outraged by his undiplomatic, nay, brutish behavior that only his prompt deportation to North Korea could calm our nerves.

Dean I. Chang, the American Embassy’s second secretary, reportedly cursed Princess Cordova, 22, after he got out of his Toyota Forerunner car with a Korean-looking woman, apparently his wife.

“You’re a bitch, you’re a bitch!,” Chang was quoted by major broadsheet columnist as shouting at the shocked Cordova who was crossing the driveway of a Korean restaurant on Jupiter Street, Barangay Bel-Air, Makati City.

The broadsheet noted that this is probably the first time a US diplomat quarreled with a Filipino outside the embassy grounds,  a young woman at that.

Mr. Kimchi Breath and his wife were apparently in such a hurry to get into a -- what else? -- Korean  restaurant and nearly ran over Cordova, who was also entering the same restaurant with a female friend.

When Cordova told her uncle, ad and PR man Dindo Danao about the incident outside with Chang, Danao told her to go to the diplomat’s table to apologize.

Danao, who was waiting for Cordova inside the restaurant, told his niece she was probably at fault, and that’s why the man was angry.

Even if she knew she was not, Cordova nevertheless obeyed Danao and went to Chang to apologize.

But instead of showing his appreciation for the gesture,  she got another mouthful from the man.

“Next time I’ll run you over if you get in my way,” Chang shouted at Cordova, according to the broadsheet

When Danao protested the shabby treatment his niece got from the Korean-American, Chang reportedly challenged him to a fight.

“You wanna square off with me?” Chang allegedly said.

This prompted Danao to promptly call the police.

The Kimchi Kid was said to be arrogant with responding policemen. He wouldn’t show his ID but gave his name and his position at the US Embassy.

Chang’s identity was confirmed when the head of the responding team, Insp. Rico Ramos, checked with the US Embassy through the numbers the diplomat gave him.

Ramos told Danao they couldn’t hold Chang as he has diplomatic immunity, but this didn’t prevent Danao from barricading the diplomat’s car.

Chang refused to talk to the media and went back to the restaurant with another US Embassy official who came after he phoned for help.

In some circles such a character is called a smelly rectal aperture.