North Korea keeps ratcheting up the threat index with pronouncements that they're going to unleash nuclear annihilation against the US and South Korea. The threats are definitely crazy, but I think they've been acting as rational irrationalists. What do I mean by this? It means that they're crazy like a fox and have a definite strategy here. They know from past history that crazy gets the goods.
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
The Rational Irrationalism of North Korea
Posted on 06:15 by Unknown
Posted in China, Japan, Kim Jong-un, missile defense, missile tech, North Korea, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, South Korea, USA
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Monday, 9 April 2012
Is North Korea Contemplating New Nuclear Test As It Readies Missile For Launch
Posted on 08:05 by Unknown
North Korea has been quite busy in the past couple of days with pronouncements about preparing for a test of a new long rang missile. Now, South Korea is warning of possible preparations by the North to conduct a new underground nuclear weapons test. All this comes just months after Kim Jong Un assumed the role of national leader following the death of his father Kim Jong Il. The missile test and
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
North Korea Agrees To Moratorium on Nuclear Weapons, Missile Development
Posted on 08:25 by Unknown
This is being hailed as a significant breakthrough, and it should be. However, we need to be vigilant that North Korea isn't double dealing - saying one thing to the US all while engaging in clandestine operations or proliferation activities.The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and accept a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, in a
Friday, 13 January 2012
North Korea Culls Population of Insincere Mourners; Will Display Kim Jong Il's Remains
Posted on 08:05 by Unknown
North Korea's regime is sending people it deems to be insincere in mourning the death of Kim Jong-il to labor camps. It's a loyalty test of sorts, and the regime will get to pick and choose who didn't appear sufficiently sad at the loss of the dead dictator.
That ABC News report includes a chipper video accompanying the story that ends with a variation of "...it's up to the North Korean
That ABC News report includes a chipper video accompanying the story that ends with a variation of "...it's up to the North Korean
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
North Korea Conducts Kim Jong-il's Funeral
Posted on 07:30 by Unknown
North Korea is mourning the loss of the despot Kim Jong-il and the nation's propagandists are busy with the hagiography of both Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un, who now leads the country. Western observers have little to go by on what is really going on in the country and who is holding the strings of power, so the funeral is an opportunity for them to remark upon who is and isn't involved in the
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