The "Spoiled Child" Syndrome
"Returning to consultation and talks is in the interests of all sides. Ensuring the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula is the shared responsibility of all sides. We call on all sides to do more to stabilize the situation." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong LetChina likely did not foresee the eventual outcome of its unwavering support for the ever-adolescent Kim Jong-il. Perhaps now that their patience is running at a low ebb at his continual, spontaneous outbursts of enthusiasm for provoking South Korea by threats and violent assaults they are finally recognizing the folly of supporting a mental midget whose ego is simply unappeasable.
It is even possible that they regret propping the regime up as they have, defending it and encouraging it to continue its irridentist program of confrontation and bellicose threats. For surely, without the funding and fondling that China provided, along with the prestige and universal fear inherent in such a powerful mentor whose end result has been bribes from its neighbour and Western sources, the regime would long since have collapsed.
And with that collapse and the political chaos that would follow, would present the opportunity for the South to take advantage of an opening to entice the North to finally relent and allow itself to be re-absorbed into one great, opportune whole. Which would be costly to the economy of South Korea, and hugely beneficial to the future of North Korea whose population would finally be properly fed and housed.
As matters now stand the situation has become untenable. The sickly, lunatic tyrant has become even more mentally unstable, his generals more aggressively hostile, the country's scientists more absorbed in nuclear success and the proliferation of nuclear know-how and uranium enrichment techniques more likely to be shared with rogue regimes like Syria and Iran.
While North Korea's state news agencies proudly proclaim the country's development of nuclear projects for strictly peaceful purposes, nuclear experts in the West know otherwise and shrink in prophetic dismay at the future prospects of regional Armageddon. The United States, forever at odds with China, bears pressure on them to bear pressure on North Korea.
China's influence with a North Korea frenetically enthused and intoxicated by its own home-grown technological successes and undisciplined aggressions which have borne no consequences other than painful denunciations, appears increasingly limited. China has coddled a "spoiled child" far too long.
The world waits with bated breath for the spoiled child's follow-up tantrum.
Labels: China, Societal Failures, Technology, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, December 01, 2010
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