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talkpoliticsWhat are the odds that this gets a LOT worse by the traditional spring time offensive season when a young general's fancy turns to invasion?
Brief timeline:
North Korea is accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship.
South Korea fires at North Korean fishing boats crossing the maritime border North Korea refuses to recognize.
North Korea is revealed to have highly modern facilities for nuclear material enrichment.
Not to mention, North Korea is facing the challenge of passing along the regime to a third generation of the Kim family.
North Korea is known for rattling its sabre and demanding to have attention paid to it when it is being ignored, but this is looking like a very different than recent years -- South Korea really has to retaliate...and half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area within artillery range of the DMZ.
So a question -- is North Korea suicidal or are they betting that this behavior can get them some more winter grain shipments?
Brief timeline:
North Korea is accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship.
South Korea fires at North Korean fishing boats crossing the maritime border North Korea refuses to recognize.
North Korea is revealed to have highly modern facilities for nuclear material enrichment.
Not to mention, North Korea is facing the challenge of passing along the regime to a third generation of the Kim family.
North Korea is known for rattling its sabre and demanding to have attention paid to it when it is being ignored, but this is looking like a very different than recent years -- South Korea really has to retaliate...and half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area within artillery range of the DMZ.
So a question -- is North Korea suicidal or are they betting that this behavior can get them some more winter grain shipments?
The latter.
Date: 23/11/10 16:36 (UTC)Plus paving the way for Kim-the-third.
Besides, if DPRK gets too out of hand the Chinese will help the rest of the world turn them into pink mist.
Question being, at what point does China (and thus everyone else) step in? My guess is after it's too damn late.