"It tells us a lot about, first of all,l how ruthless and reckless he is, and it also tells us a lot about how insecure he is ... spontaeneous erratic, still worried about his place in the power structure and manoeuvring to eliminate any potential kind of an adversary or competitor. [Mr. Kim leads a] ruthless, horrendous dictatorship."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
That, of course, is Mr. Kerry's personal take on the issue. Kim Jong-un obviously believes otherwise, that he is a beneficent leader, controlled and positive, certain of his place in the world, and contemptuous of Mr. Kerry's. Who is Mr. Kerry, after all, other than a messenger. And anyone who claims that it is not civil to shoot the messenger of a foreign, interventionist imperialist country ruled by the descendant of slaves, when Mr. Kim is so powerful he has the capability of enslaving hundreds of thousands -- who is the more powerful?
As for uncertainty and proving himself. The great leader has done so and more, and has no reason whatever, and never did, to feel insecure, uncertain of himself and the immense power he wields. Any who believe otherwise have a great surprise in store for them. While Mr. Kim magnanimously released from incarceration the elderly American who had once been guilty of training South Koreans to battle the North, should Mr. Kerry somehow stumble into North Korean territory he will not be so blessed.
On the other hand, there are Americans who are welcome to present themselves in North Korea. One is former president Jimmy Carter, as long as he takes care to be sufficiently humble in the presence of a great man. And oh yes, an American sports superstar, whose exquisite professional showmanship Mr. Kim can relate to Dennis Rodman, a personal good friend of good standing. For the while in any event.
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North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un (l.) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch
North Korean and US players in an exhibition basketball game in
Pyongyang, North Korea, in this Feb. 28 file photo. Rodman arrived in
Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters
basketball team.
Jason Mojica/VICE Media/AP/File
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And oh yes, delayed the final disposition of auntie Kim Kyong Hui, for she is elderly and frail and unlikely to last too much longer and the optics are good, very good, and most auspicious for the future, leaving all and sundry to wonder and worry... She is, after all, auntie Kim. Daughter of the precious blood-line of the Kim dynasty. Although she could be disposed of, she may yet prove useful.
Grandfather Kim Il-sung would undoubtedly approve. Not of any single and remarkable initiative undertaken by precious grandson, but all, every singular decision. As for the grieving widow, what has most certainly extended her life is that she was never as vulnerably sensitive as her daughter who preferred suicide to continued life in the tradition of the Kims.
In the tradition of the Kims, Kyong Hui chose the path of non-interference in the disposal of her husband. Their estrangement and her sour dissatisfaction with her husband's freedom from marital constraints no doubt led to the charges levelled against him before execution of womanizing. How perfectly indelicate of him to leave himself open to such charges, regardless of their merit or lack of such.
Labels: North Korea, Psychopathy
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 17, 2013
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