I think the coming famine will the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
The reason for the nuke activity is to blackmail the West into providing food. You would think allies Russia and China would provide food aid for them.
Some allies, huh.
I think you are right. Other high-ranking defectors have said that the troops are so obsessed with finding food that they have little interest in engaging in battle.
>> I think the coming famine will the straw that breaks the camel’s back <<
I was talking the other day to a former South Korean army intelligence officer, who thinks the North Korean regime is bound to fall within ten years, probably much sooner, due mainly to growing economic problems. Let’s just hope ex-Prez J. E. Carter or a Carter clone won’t be able to bail the Norks out again, the way Carter did in 1994.