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Posted on 08/08/2015 8:36:52 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The North Korean government is getting weaker and more vulnerable. That should scare you.
By Samuel Ramani August 4
On July 11, 2015, North Korea announced during a summit with Laos’s military delegation that it had appointed a new defense chief, General Pak Yong-Sik. This appointment indirectly confirmed the South Korean Intelligence Service’s allegations that North Korea had executed General Yong-Sik’s predecessor, by close range anti-aircraft gunfire.
If this is true, it’s the latest in a long string of executions. According to the South Korean foreign ministry, Kim Jong-Un has executed 70 government officials since he took power in late 2011. His father Kim Jong-Il had executed only 10 officials when he was four years into his rule.
Even by North Korea’s draconian standards, Kim Jong-Un’s repression of elites is extraordinary. It is especially striking that purges are occurring when there’s no immediate leadership succession, the most common time for mass executions in totalitarian regimes.
And it suggests that in the Hermit Kingdom, turmoil is festering. North Korea is struggling to contain an economic catastrophe resulting from the worst drought in a century, which will cause more acute food shortages. When you add financial turmoil in China, the DPRK’s principal international patron, the situation becomes even bleaker.
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Is there enough cohesion in the military for them to eliminate the fat sob without a total collapse. Starving people make poor revolutionaries.
‘Beware the person with nothing to lose’
I scanned through looking for the proverbial liberal call to “throw money at it, appease, surrender, capitulate, abdicate, lead from behind” Obama response.
It wasn’t specifically there. But somehow I feel this is just the prelude to a cry for an Iran Capitulation Deal II for NK - and another $150 billion pissed away like our streets are paved with gold.
Or unstoppable ones. If you make people desperate enough, they will be willing to run through gunfire to try and get at you.
Just more proof of the dispicable nature of the Chicoms. If they had any interest in furthering peace in the world, they would squish this little despot like a bug.
Maybe they are hungry they don’t have energy to fight
YIKESS!!
I'm no expert on China and do see them as a potential threat, but they are now more of a autocratic capitalist country than true communist (all production and distribution of goods controlled by the state).
Other than their out-lying rural areas, their cities are highly developed and westernized and allow limited free enterprise, not to mention Macau's gambling resorts owned by Las Vegas Sands, Wynn, and MGM. They even have a China version of "America's Got Talent". They have a long way to go to be a truly free nation, but they are not North Korea.
That said, I believe the leadership of China doesn't squash the Norks because of a potential alliance in case of future conflict. Not good. Also not happy with their military build-up.
They keep trying to squeeze the mud
Look at Venezuela their government caused food shortages and tries to keep blaming supermarket chains for it. lol.
Bill Clinton already did the nuke deal with NK. Billions were spent on building light water nuke power plants in NK for a promise not to make nuke weapons.
Of course they did it anyway.
“It’s your deal, not ours”
This ignores the prime directive of dictatorships.
First, above all else, there must be unthinking loyalty to the dictator.
Only then can lieutenants be utterly tyrannical. Lieutenants are at the top of their food chain. If they get ambitious, they are dead men. If they think they can impress their boss by being tyrannical, they are mistaken. Loyalty comes first.
What puzzles me is why China would tolerate such a rogue, nuclear powered regime on their border.
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