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So the North Koreans have been sabre-rattling a lot more than usual as of late. In response to the recent release of South Korean government report which definitively concluded that the North had indeed torpedoed a Southern warship back in March, the Kim Jong Il regime has been making all sorts of crazy/scary statements. “War may break out any moment!” they said last week, for instance.
Veteran Pyongyang-watchers have cautioned us to not take any of this too seriously, saying it’s just an odd tableau of North Korean internal politics playing out on the global stage. Kim Jong Il is ailing, and apparently the way successor candidates are expected to prove themselves fit for the North Korean presidency is to bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Kim wants his son to take over, so the regime is now pretending that lil’ Kim Jr. ordered the South Korean attack, and is thus directly responsible for the presently frightened state of the international community. Kim Jong himself was on the receiving end of a similar propaganda effort shortly before he came to power in the mid-90′s, except he was credited with blowing up a South Korean airliner.
It would be nice if Kim Jong Il could just get on with it, and die or whatever already, rather than subject the world to more of his deadly family drama.
Here’s a good summary of the situation from FOX.
May 2nd, 2011 at 3:43 am
A sad the story. It is safe to make a plot for a novel.