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The North Korean threat is all bluster, no action. Nothing is ever going to happen. All that bluster is a very dangerous game and I don't understand why Kim pl
by ourmandave 9y ago
The North Korean threat is all bluster, no action. Nothing is ever going to happen.
All that bluster is a very dangerous game and I don't understand why Kim plays it. It would be Mutually Assured Destruction without the Mutually, unless China joined in.
My thought is he wants The Bomb so he doesn't go the way of Sadam, Gaddafi, or Noriega if he's considered "no longer useful."
I think we're on a very short path to a nuclear armed South Korea. But that's like putting missiles in Cuba. D=
- owebmaster 9y ago> All that bluster is a very dangerous game and I don't understand why Kim plays it. It is not difficult to understand. They consider the US and South Korea a threat to their existence and, as you pointed out, he doesn't want to finish like Saddam and Gaddafi and NK the new Iraq or Libya.
- vkou 9y agoI don't understand why you are being downvoted. 1. The United States and South Korea are indeed an existential threat to Kim's government. 2. Nuclear weapons will guarantee that North Korea won't see a regime change anytime soon.
- azernik 9y agoBecause the confrontation, and the perception of strength, is essential to the regime's legitimacy.
- owebmaster 9y agoWhich regime? South Korean, North Korean, Chinese or American?
- azernik 9y agoNorth Korean. The Chinese and South Korean systems both base their legitimacy on economic success (to the extent that people are seriously worried about China's political stability if growth slows down too much), and the American one is based on an interesting self-righteous moralism.
- owebmaster 9y agoBut confrontation and the perception of strength is also what legitimate the American regime and its Asian Pivot.