The reason NK rather than anyone else: Smokescreen for China - brilliant but probably too effective. Frequent incursions and attacks against South, Routine proclamations of a threatening nature. Also no pretense about military ambitions as opposed to commercial participation. Other nuclear powers have behaved as if they are legitimate, they fake elections, they open embassies, they pretend to have laws and make sort of nice with their neighbors. They choose sides in the Russo-US conflict and invest as a show of loyalty. They pretend to be rational, legitimate actors.
No such pretense. God/leader. People shmeeple, let em starve. Give them aid or else. Laws? see god/leader rule. They sneak across borders, fire rockets at ships, hope they accidentally hit Japan. Have no even inclination of behaving as if once we get nukes they will grow up.
NK is the psychotic kid down the street who sees paranoid visons and refuses to take his meds, oh, and he wants an AR 15 for his birthday, and in sane moments thinks he can assemble one from instructions he's downloaded. Yes, he made gunpowder, in his garage, from cat dung and stolen stuff. He's thrown rocks and broken his neighbor's windows and screams at his mom, all the time. The girl next door is terrified because he's threatened to rape and kill her, but he's been ruled incompetent and is not in jail. BTW his dad and grandad all acted the same way, lived in the same burned house with the same boarded up windows, miraculously there were few casualties.
This is how everyone feels about NK.
We may not trust Pakistan, and perhaps should have called CPS on him. But he goes to work, and he mows his lawn, except the area around that creepy shed. And we don't like him, but he mostly pays his taxes and doesn't freak out at the neighborhood barbecue. Just keep him and India apart and it might be ok. Lots of our neighbors are assholes,but NK is a special case.Statistics: Posted by bralbovsky — Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:48 am
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