“However, Hitler had his devout followers in the rank and file.”
Hitler had nothing on the Norks. After all, the Germans were presumably sane before Hitler swept their reason away, but Kim’s soldiers were born into institutional insanity.
If a person’s every idea is insane because that’s all he’s been taught, is he insane? And does that matter?
“I wonder how many of the rank and file under the little tyrant would turn on him in a second. Or maybe a day, if things were going poorly.”
The tendency will be to fight to the death.
“It sounds like life in North Korea is pretty bad.”
Horrible beyond the imagining of most Americans, but the best of what there is goes to the military. At least they eat.
Some years ago one of the dead Kims had to prohibit daylight burials, because the starving were digging up the deceased and eating them.
“The tendency will be to fight to the death.”
Absolutely true if we invade with an army.
Even in the olden days the Norklandians were known as committed, and CAPABLE fighters. They would exact a high penalty from an invading force.
No doubt.