The NORKS are bluffing. They’ve got nothing to gain and everything to lose.
The Kim family needs a subsidy and nobody’s paying. It’s blackmail, pure and simple.
“The Kim family needs a subsidy and nobody’s paying. It’s blackmail, pure and simple.”
Problem for Kim is that we used to pay, now no one is paying. So what does he do? Ball back in Kim’s court.
The pattern of provoke, negotiate, pay-off, provoke looks to be over. I would not presume a predictable outcome.