Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
” believes that one of the problems with negotiating with the DPRK is that we do not know at the moment whether the DPRK chain of command is in fact absolutely unified under KJI. “
In other words, he’s not sure who to pay-off...
(I gather that this is the same Christopher Hill who thought the “Six-Party-Talks” were a great success, when they committed greatly increased ‘aid’ (AKA ‘Danegeld’) to NK, for no substantive concessions in return??)
Hill is a maroon, no doubt. But all joking aside, if there really is a chain of command issue, the I’m not so sure the old rules of provacation, negotiate, break promise, provacation still apply. Just makes an already tense situation all the more volatile.