“How does he get away with it? Loosely, that is the question posed by North Korea-watchers trying to understand how an odious regime has remained stable for so long, defying frequent predictions of its downfall.”
He gets away with it because their are a host of military leaders who benefit from his policies. I doubt they’d allow the provinces to break off though, it would weaken them too much.
He gets away with it because we are idiots. Cut medical and food aid to him tomorrow and freeze his bank accounts, next sunday he will threaten to nuke us and the folowing sunday he will give ip everything.
We have enough cojones to put 25k troops in harms way but not enough cojones to divert those flights to a nuke ravaged Japan.