We can’t kill him; we’re not dealing with someone like Saddam or Ghaddafi, we’re dealing first with a regime that is fully loyal and brainwashed and a population with no connection at all to the outside world. This is a population kept effectively cut off from the rest of the world.
Second, he’s almost satanically cunning. He’s someone who knows precisely who to target in a purge and has managed to outfox very real adversaries to take and maintain power. He’s a product of pure Eastern Asian culture and this is not a culture that is based on being obvious.
Third, removing him would require an insane amount of delicacy. The Chinese are direct neighbors and any military moves near them could cause a horrific outbreak of world war if anything went wrong. The Chinese might not like him, but he is their burden and they know how to contain the demon.
Fourth, North Korea has nukes. Kim Jong-Il perfected it and tested it. There is no way we can even make any maneuvers without that demon in power using those nukes. The Chinese would absorb the fallout. They would be used against the United States and yes, Kim Jong-Un is likely just that ruthless to do it. He’s not crazy either, but a sadist.
There are so many more variables. We would also have to deprogram an entire nation and end up acclimatize them to the modern world, something that would be a HUGE adjustment and a traumatized population would require a huge amount of specialized handling. Humanitarian project for at least a decade.
ain’t buying
blasting him to Kingdom Come would do the Chinese a favar as well
Good post.
I watched a show a few years ago on North Korea, I think it was National geographic when daddy Kim was still in power, Kim Jung mentally Ill whatever his name was, and it was just unreal. It reminded me of that Twilight zone episode “It’s a good life” where everyone is walking on eggshells so the kid don’t kill them. They showed a typical North Korean apartment, and every picture hanging on their wall was Kim Jung, no family photos, just constant photos of “The Dear Leader”. And the cameras followed this foreign eye doctor around who did cataract operations as an act of charity, he worked fast and did something like 100 people, and when he was finished and they had the bandages off, ALL of them wailed and cried at a picture of Kim Jung and thanked “The Dear Leader” for his “mercy and kindness”, NONE of them thanked the doctor. I was saying to myself, every lib who thinks more power should be given to the government should watch this thing, this stuff is no joke. Living like that is the definition of hell on earth.
Not sure I see the need for the word “almost” in that sentence.
But I fully agree with you about East Asian culture not being a culture that is based on being obvious.
I don't think most Westerners have any comprehension of what we're dealing with in North Korea. It is not just the Kim family; it is a whole culture which reflects the outlook not only of North Korea but also of most of Asia until very recent times.
The “Hermit Kingdom” culture of pre-Christian Korea, however, was even worse than what prevailed in China or most of the rest of Asia. Reading stories from the 1700s and 1800s about persecution of early Christian converts in Korea looks like reading something out of Imperial Rome or modern North Korea. Except for Japan under the shoguns, it is hard to find anyplace in Asia which was more hostile toward foreign influences than pre-1800s Korea.
The similarities of deification of the ruler are more than accidental. They reflect a fundamentally non-Christian system of ethics developed by a culture which is thousands of years old and in which Satan has had unchallenged rulership until the last few centuries.
We can't expect Satan to give up easily.