Re: Voices from North Korea- what the people thought of Kim Jong-Il

Originally Posted by
TotalMayhem
Oh please... the cold war was long over when this madman Kim Jong Il came to power.
To the North Koreans it hasn't. They consider the South to be part of their territory, and thus occupied at the moment by what they see as an illegitimate 'puppet' government of the US. Reunification on their terms, whether by armed force or otherwise, is the second major goal of the regime after regime survival. To them, their nuclear weapons would only be deployed as part of an assault to retake the South or in retaliation for an attack by ROK or US forces. Their key aim in using the weapon as deterrence is to deter US ground troops taking part in any future conflict, as they rightly see them as having turned the tide against them in the First Korean War. They also judge, whether correctly or not, that it's not politically feasible for the US to use nuclear weapons against a country bordering China, as it would flip the Chinese out.
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