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Why is North Korea doing this? : Comments

By Chris Lloyd, published 2/10/2017

The key missing element is a plausible account of the motives of North Korea (NK), specifically their leader Kim Jong Un (KJU).

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North Korea has been under sanctions for so long, the idea of being recoginizedcas a nuclular power and be free of sanctions, as well as more economic freedom slunes like a likely part of the equasion.

That said I doubt that is all there is. I don't want to trust his motives to be purely for that cause, and then find out whoops no he really hates everyone he's targeting, and war is definitely on.

There may be little to trust on these issues. It looks like North Korea and the US are going to force eachother's hands on their real motives, or challenge them until it becomes a war.

What difference does it make how anyone sees the issue if they aren't in control of it and the ones in control to fight or to fight back have already descided regardless our opinions of it are.
Posted by Not_Now.Soon, Monday, 2 October 2017 8:11:01 AM
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Why? I don't know why!

A rational Leader, would have done an East Germany? Long long ago! And reunited divided families and a rent asunder war torn country. [Mr president, tear down that wall.]

This is what we can expect, when a brainwashed child grows into an adult, believing BS, fact free, state sponsored propaganda!

Me? I'd give him nuclear power as, [nothing to fear here,] operational walk away safe, thorium based molten salt reactors. And for democratic elections they don't ever walk away from! And power sharing arrangements, with a more prosperous southern half!

Failing that?

Do what we should have done! When Mr Hitler stole power and before he plunged the rest of the world into a war that cost millions of lives. Monumentally massive destroyed property and incomes!

Just take him out! With as much pity as one would when euthanizing, a rabid, disease riddled, seriously savage, alpha werewolf. And as a surgical removal?

Failing that? Plan B? With any and all means, whatever it takes! That gets the job done!

Preferably before the world is forced over the brink of destruction!

A show of ruthless resolve, here and now, may well give other leaders cause to pause, reflect and choose a different more cooperative, single planet, peaceful pathway?

Or? Just bend over and kiss your kester goodbye?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 2 October 2017 10:47:27 AM
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The author hasn't done enough reading:

All three leaders of the Kim dynasty have justified their control over their people and high defence/security spending to deter invasion.

North Korea needs its nukes to prevent being invaded or attacked by aircraft and missiles. North Korea has been invaded over the last 80 years by nations including: Japan, China (a literal invasion), Russia, and under the UN/Korean War (the US, UK, Australia, South Korea etc).
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 2 October 2017 11:09:45 AM
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Dictatorship is a balancing act.

A dictator must always be on guard that no other body is too strong.

In the case of KJU, the regular army is too strong, so he wants to reduce it in size. But he has no other excuse to reduce his army and if his conventional guns are no longer so massively targeting Seoul, then NK would be more exposed to an external invasion.

A white-collar elite of rocket and nuclear scientists is not as threatening to a dictator as those in control of tanks and fighter-jets, so KJU wants to tell the army: "Our rockets have made us safe, now we can finally afford to reduce the army's size in order to improve the economy" (the economy of course, is only a pretext).
Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 2 October 2017 11:58:31 AM
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They do it because, in the past, people like Obama have given them something to appease them. The thicko Rocket Man doesn't yet know that Trump is a very different man who will actually fight enemies of the West.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 2 October 2017 12:14:49 PM
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The little rocket man with the funny hairstyle is a whole lot smarter than the big fat rocket man with the road kill on his head will ever be.
Posted by ateday, Monday, 2 October 2017 5:37:41 PM
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