Steel Tombs Op Plan looks pretty solid to my thinking, but the question is the gap between now and then. Something that caught my friends eye whilst we were discussing the news:
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Originally Posted by BBC
"After the worst harvest for a decade, the World Food Programme believe a quarter of the population of North Korea need food aid.
To divert attention, the government has abruptly broken off talks, test-firing both long- and short-range missiles and then carrying out the underground test, a major escalation, our correspondent says."
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Now there's nothing like an empty stomach to motivate people, of course the King of the Communists (I love the idea of generating power from spinning Marx
) will insure that he (if he's still alive) and his military buddies get the best crops of the best, but the lower down you go, eventually you're going to get to a point where there are a group of people with guns who are unhappy, and when that happens it's trouble, so you need to distract them.
It could be that Kim is bargaining on the US striking first, hoping to goad them into hitting their nuclear facilities or something similar, so that he will be able to thrive on the propaganda and feed pictures of US bombers bombing 'innocent Korean children' to his people over and over again, perhaps he hopes that the UN will embargo him more, so that he will be able to show people pictures of starving Korean children and blame the UN for starving them, although that route is a little bit more difficult to take for prolonged periods.
I heard a reporter from Seoul today say that "Some foreign analysts spend their entire lives trying to second guess the DPRK, and they still get it wrong."
The DPRK is a loose cannon, no-one knows which way it will go, or indeed how it is still existing.