N Korea launches 4 missiles close to Japan

I believe that NK is being seriously underestimated in a number of areas. One is ignoring who NK will be / are selling armaments too, secondly the development of nonconventional weapons.
 

Kim Jong-un may be the most dangerous person on the planet. He has an entire nation bowing to his every demented wish. He often faces opposition...even within his own family...and his response is to have anyone who criticizes his actions assassinated. Putting a person like this in a position where he has missiles and nuclear weapons is a ticking time bomb. It is just a question of time before he actually launches these weapons. There have been a couple of articles in recent weeks that indicate that if his power is ever threatened seriously, he WILL launch his weapons as his final action.

A good indicator of just how "different" he is from his people is the pictures of North Koreans. While the vast majority of his people seem to be quite skinny...almost malnourished...Kim is borderline Obese....a good sign that HE is the only one who really matters in North Korea.
 
One of the things people forget is that Japan occupied a lot of Korea in World War II. For some in NK this is probably still a driver because they remember things like that and will pass it down through the generations. NK is not just taunting the west these are messages to Japan.
 
Lo, I fear anyone who fires a nuke at the US is gonna open a can of worms that cannot be stopped. With trump saying he wants to rebuild our nuclear arsenal is going down the wrong path!! I just hope my hole is deep enough!!
 
He's no idiot. He's a very canny operator and very popular with the population of NK. Not only that but you can bet anything you like NK has mutual defense treaties and deals with some very undesirable nations. The Japanese armed forces were ridiculed right up to the point that they engaged The West and once that happened opinions suddenly changed. To dismiss NK as somewhere that could be squished with ease would be to make a very big mistake.
 
My thoughts too Debby, unless popular has taken on a new meaning. N Korea is a totalitarian state and the people are too afraid to speak openly about very much at all.
 
Do you not realise that a great deal of what is being put in the Western media is propaganda? I'm not saying that life in NK is a bed of roses, it isn't, but nor is it, but its what a lot of people who live there like.

During the Cold War the USSR was presented as a concrete wilderness with shortages in everything. There were shortages from time to time but NOTHING like it was being presented in press. Today the older people who were the younger people when the USSR collapsed see the USSR as being very much better than today's Russian Federation - and in many ways they're right.

Don't be to quick to believe all that you read about life in NK. A lot of people really DO like life in such societies.
 
The North Korea population is "content", mainly because they know no other way of life. There is little or no contact with the outside world. What they do know is that 100% loyalty to the "Leader" is required. The option is death. The people of NK have seen high-ranking government leaders and even relatives of the "Leader" executed in public for things a minor as dozing off during a speech.

The NK military is a force to be reckoned with. The military knows two things. First, they are brainwashed into believing that no other force in the world is greater. Therefore, they have the confidence they will succeed in any confrontation. They also know there is no option other than winning in battle. To lose... to surrender... to return to their own country without a victory would mean public execution. With those things in mind, the military are not afraid to use nerve gas or nuclear devices to destroy an enemy... even if it is a suicidal mission.

Kim Jong Un was schooled in Europe and understands the forces he would be up against should he cross a threshold. The longer he stays in power, the more he has a need to display his "greatness" to the people. So far, those displays have been either execution of his own or military exercises that provoke but do not invoke retaliation.

People are starving to death in the streets of NK. People are hauled to concentration/work camps in NK and are never again seen by family members. The population lives in constant fear of their leadership... a fear that is often construed as respect. There is simply no means of the people rising up. They know no other way of life other than living in fear. I still believe that Kim Jong Un will make his misstep with China and they will be the one to effect a covert mission whereby he will "go missing".
 
Yes, I'm pinning my hopes on China too to deal with this menace, but what will they put in his place?
 

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