Jong Un, heir to the throne of Kim, is only the ostensible “leader” of a cabal of Stalinists who run the ever more isolated state of North Korea. Those Stalinists have watched the one time “communist” world change to far less confrontational foreign policies.

Cuba is too far away, and too economically hamstrung to be much help, and it must be of some chagrin to the NK regime to find Chinese support and sympathy dwindling. At this time, NK is putting its shrinking resources into expensive military development.  A market for their rocketry and nuclear weapons exists and they may be gambling on that source of income to sure-up their failing state.
The NK Stalinists do not appear to be very imaginative, and whether they are seriously considering starting a war with the USA is hard to predict, but they may favour the idea. They know that a communist North Korea only exists due to their mountainous terrain which made conventional war difficult.

While advertising their technology with increasingly brazen missile and nuclear weapons tests, they may also hope to goad the USA into a first strike, gambling on the attack being conventional due to America public opinion opposing nuclear options. Any military action on the part of the USA would free NK to blitz South Korea, whom they could then hold to ransome, so to speak.

In the mean time, rocket launches and detonations give the illusion of a powerful regime that can taunt the USA as it pleases, which of course, appeals to all their customers, like Islamic Hamas, Islamic Iran, and even shadowier organisations.

Each time Jong Un tests an inter continental ballistic missile or does a nuclear test in North Korea countless millions of dollars are being spent

China has put a half choke hold on North Korea and following the Nuclear Test don't be surprised if they put the whole foot on North Korea's throat

Jong Un's options dwindle by the day

He may be just mad enough to actually attack someone

If he does it will be practically the last thing he does

The U.S. know where he is every minute of the day

One of the first things they would do is take him out

Because, without him the Country would fold like a deck of cards

issuevoter wrote on Sep 5^th, 2017 at 10:31pm:


I've come to the conclusion that everything NK is doing is actually a cry for help. They can't end it so they'll push and push to try and get outside forces to intervene.

Japan is evacuating 60,000 of its citizens out of South Korea.. '

North Korea is positioning another missile to the launch pad...

Dow Jones loses 200 points... 

bogarde73 wrote on Sep 6^th, 2017 at 8:30am:


Any discomfort to US foreign policy is OK with China and Russia. Whichever way it goes they can say "I told you so." As for regime change, look how well it went in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'd put money on the United States phuqing it up.

But it won't be the end of the problem, it will be the start of an awful.environmental disaster

issuevoter wrote on Sep 6^th, 2017 at 9:44pm:


People of North Korea clearly are not a threat. They have no territorial ambitions. Simply their priority is survival and independence, and that is what has always driven the North Korean nuclear program. As they have pointed out, they have seen what happened to Iraq after Iraq allowed itself to be disarmed by the UN. They saw what happened to Libya after Libya gave up its nuclear program. They are determined to avoid the same fate. They also remember what happened to them during the Korean War, when over three million people were killed in that war. More towns and cities were destroyed by bombing in North Korea during the Korean War than in the whole of Japan or Germany during WWII. In fact, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea in the Korea War, than it dropped in the entire Pacific region during WWII.