[Southack]

"As a result, I respectfully dismiss this as 'disinformation', as you may have suggested."

Sorry, I was trying to say that whether this new document is real OR NOT, it still fits in with the Communist short-term goal of appearing very desperate/crazy.

It may very well be real, I have no way of confirming nor denying that fact, but the document works towards the North Koreans' short-term goal regardless.

With that knowlege in mind, this document may very well have been leaked by the DPRK security police themselves, even if it is true (something rather rare for them).

[myself6]

I agree with you on this. Whether this is true or not is not something that I can not ascertain, but it does fit with their current strategery. How many documents of this obviously sensitive nature "escaped" from NK? Why now?

I do not think that it is prudent to hit the ground running in an assumed direction. I do not think its wise to simply dismiss the possibility of this being NK propaganda.

AIT has done a wonderful job of getting this info to FR before it is ANYWHERE in the US media or in English even.

Thank you AIT.

Lets just not make the mistake of overlooking possibilities and making faulty assumptions.

[Steel Wolf]

Sorry, I was trying to say that whether this new document is real OR NOT, it still fits in with the Communist short-term goal of appearing very desperate/crazy

Appearing desperate and crazy is a national policy of North Korea that they have used for decades. It's not a very hard sell, either. I don't imagine that they are any more crazy than usual. They may well be more desperate, but that is only because North Korea has no effective patron state, no way to sustain its operations independently, and a very powerful enemy that it has been irritating for almost 60 years.

You're right in that it is mostly an act; the North Korean leaders are calculating and methodical, often incompetently so. They are also walking into a trap.

Bush's point at the U.N., to be made sometime this summer, will be that if North Korea is desperate, it is their own doing. All they have to do is get in line with the international community, blah blah blah, and we'd help them out. He'll throw cash, food and oil on the table, and he'll ask for some concessions that will sound rather bland and appeasing. The right will gasp in horror, the left will cheer, and the North Koreans will accuse us of being despotic aggressors, refuse entirely, and storm out.

Cue the U.N. sanctions, cue the USN blockade. Past that, it's war or collapse for North Korea.