The recent attacks from North Korea on South Korea seem designed to show its own military leaders that the son of Kim Il-sung has what it takes to succeed him and lead their country.<\/p>\n
North Korea is really a military dictatorship. The military of North Korea is the all important to the Kim dynasty. Those in the military are taken care of first even if it means the rest of the nation starves. That might explain why North Korea has to keep up the tensions with South Korea. It helps them justify the huge military class that keeps the nation suppressed under tyranny.<\/p>\n
The North Koreans have a formidable military although most of their equipment is cold war era and would not match up against the weapons of the South Koreans and its allies. Therefore, if there is any war the South Koreans and its allies would defeat and take over the North but the damage to the Seoul\u00a0 area of 25 million people would be devastating since Seoul is in range of the world’s largest artillery force. Seoul is the reason why North Korea gets away with bullying the South. The destruction of much of Seoul is really not an acceptable loss to South Koreans.<\/p>\n
It seems the strategy of North Korea is to consistently threaten war with the hope that this threat will lead to them obtaining material concessions for peace. They have been pretty good at using their nuclear program to sucker the United States into giving them aid. There are different views on whether they could actually weaponize any nukes at this point, but the nuclear program continues to develop.<\/p>\n
The North Koreans have been pushing South Korea to the brink lately with the sinking of a ship and the shelling of an Island. At some point this could lead to a measured military response against North Korea. After that happens who knows what North Korea will do? It could quickly become an all out war.<\/p>\n
I have said in my 2010-2020 worlds trends forecast that North Korea will not survive the decade, I don’t think I have this wrong. I think the leaders are delusional and they will make a fatal mistake. They take appeasement and inaction to their provocations as a sign of weakness. But, any nation will only take so much. Then when they get whacked in return, they will overreact with their delusions of grandeur and start a war.<\/p>\n
Some of the top leaders in N. Korea are not rational beings. They probably look at war games that are fixed so that they always win. So, they might actually believe they could win a war. But, North Korea is isolated nobody in the world would help support North Korea if they started a war. On the other hand, South Korea would have American and Japanese support among others. So the outcome is obvious although it will be a bloody and expensive war.<\/p>\n
I do not known when this war will happen but since North Korea seems incapable of making peace I think the final phase of the Korean war draws near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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