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"Specifically, that initial push to roll back the 'military first' policy and start allocating resources from the munitions industry to the civilian economy is now in question. I am afraid the escalating tensions will force [Mr. Kim] to rethink the domestic development strategy, and to instead yield to the pressures from the hardliners in the military."North Korea's tiny perfect leader whose physical stature all other North Koreans are set on a pathway of emulation resulting from mass malnutrition, was thought to have come to power with a concern relating to regime liberalization. Perhaps subtle alterations that would put his grandfather's and his father's 'military first' convictions in mothballs for the greater good of the long-suffering people of North Korea.
Alexandre Mansourov, visiting scholar, Johns Hopkins University, Washington
It seems, however, that the very military leaders who have ensured that members of the military do not experience the privation of the masses, have no intention whatever of supporting such a radical change from a system that has worked to the advantage of their military stratagems, conceived and concentrated on making their neighbours very, very nervous.
The health of the nation clearly can wait, for there are far more vital options to be pursued. Costly as they are, consuming scarce treasury, the people are understanding for they worship their Kim Jong-un, and no sacrifices are burdensome enough to underscore their vast admiration for the shining leader whose deep concern for them has given them ballistic missiles, satellites and nuclear tests.
"Clearly North Korea wants to show the world and its own people that they are a nuclear power that deserves respect. But that is in conflict with their desire for economic reforms, which are not going to happen with the kinds of sanctions and international reaction that the tests evoke", cautioned Charles Armstrong, professor of Korean studies at Columbia University in New York.
It is quite simply that having the scandalized attention of the world fixated on the scientific successes of North Korea is too valuable to surrender to the needs of the people. And since the people have been force-fed from infancy on the legend of the Kims and their demi-god status, without whose grandiose plans to defend the country from the belligerent threats of the outside world they are helpless, they accede to the power of one.
North Korea remains on a steady trajectory toward its divinely inspired destiny, as a world power before whom all others quake in fear. Prepared to unseat the United States as a has-been super-power, and to engage in friendly wrestling matches with China for world supremacy. North Korea has proven it is no mere caricature, despite scorning depictions of its cartoon leader.
Its alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran represents one of mutual respect and assistance. Iran being highly depend on the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea's scientific brilliance and the ultra-competence of its nuclear advances. The exchange of ballistic missile advances between the two, and North Korea's success in miniaturizing an atomic bomb makes for generosity between collegial help-meets.
"It really depends on China. The bottom line is, what is China willing to enact in terms of expanded sanctions?" suggests Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korean studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. "[Mr. Kim] might believe [North Korea] has a possibility for economic improvement at the same time it keeps up with these activities that the international community interprets as provocative and hostile."
But Mr. Kim enjoys provoking, he insists that it is the United States that is hostile, whose plans are to destabilize the world, and he himself is doing the world a favour by standing up to the United States, along with his partner in adversity, the Republic of Iran. No world body, no power or force is capable of turning back the clock on North Korea's superb technological advances.
From successful satellite launches, whose brilliant execution is shared by the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the nuclear tests, the third one infinitely more powerful than the previous two. And more, much more - on impeccable authority - to come.
Labels: China, Conflict, Iran, Munitions, North Korea, Nuclear Technology, Technology, United Nations, United States
posted by Pieface @ Monday, February 18, 2013
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