Or Kim wants to strike first before he faces coup. Extra troops could lock down Pyongyang and hunt down every possible trouble-maker among Pyongyang elites who can obstruct the succession process. One massive sweep in a few days.
Kind of things Romans used to do.
45 posted on 08/26/2010 5:34:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
One way or the other, things look to be happening fast over there. Forgot about the whole famine angle - that’s just one more thing to throw on the pile.
46 posted on 08/26/2010 5:44:48 AM PDT by jhpigott