This week Yours Truly the Jamaican Tory will get out of his usual comfort zone and will be taking a trip to the Far East and land right into the heart of Pyongyang where a very interesting turn of events seem to be taking shape. North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un seems to preparing for war, war to whom? You might ask , from the intelligence coming from North Korea (note that they keep a very tight lid on what they let escape into the news), the main target is none other than the big bad United States of America (the mainland that is), other targets include Japan, Guam, Hawaii and last but most certainly not least their arch-nemesis South Korea.
The North Korean Government has been putting out a lot of anti-American propaganda lately (more than usual) depicting fictional stories of them invading the USA and destroying symbols of American sovereignty such as the Capitol and the White House, other films also show North Korean troops defeating a combined force of American and South Korean troops and taking control of the entire Korean peninsula, other State owned agencies have been shown the North Korean military training for battle and making ready their attack plans with Kim III often displayed as “the man in charge”, the North is making ready all their weapons the most deadly of which are the nuclear rockets which they proudly display in public (at least Iran was sensible enough to deny any existence of nuclear rockets in their country), the most deadly stunt however was a reporter on North Korean state television (the only TV station allowed in North Korea) proudly announcing that the People’s “Democratic” Republic of Korea was ready to strike the United States of America.
Sounds scary right? Since if that were to ever come to past it would probably be the last war ever fought as both sides would end up destroying each other and the entire world with their Weapons of Mass Destruction. But let’s take a step back for a while, haven’t we been down this road before?, North Korea seems to have very aggressive policies especially when it comes to the United States and South Korea, I cannot count the number of times I have seen sabre rattling exercises between the two Koreas only to have the matter die down and then spring back up and then die down and the endless cycle goes on and on.
Scaremongering seems to a tool of North Korean policy both foreign and domestic and from what can tell from King Jong Un so far, his bark is worse than his bite, no one even knows whether some of the statistics on North Korean military and nuclear capabilities are even true due to the lack of credible sources of information, everything is strictly controlled by the state. There is speculation by many that the military figures are over-exaggerated and as for the photos in some of those military parades that have become iconic representations of the world’s most tyrannical communist regime, they are in fact doctored and that the North Korean forces are not as scary as they are made out to be, seems to me like they’re compensating for something, perhaps it’s the fear that if people should find out how militarily weak they are then the US, South Korea, Japan and the rest of their allies will step in depose the regime, the last Korean War in the 1950s was quite bloody enough and I’m sure no one wants to have a Korean War II
But then again all of this is mere speculation and nobody knows the truth for sure, nor do they want to take the chance to find out only to discovering that the North is in fact as deadly as they say it is and which case all stakeholders would find themselves in big trouble. In any case regardless of how much potential they have, I sincerely doubt that North Korea will really be as dumb as try to invade the U.S.A. sure they have nuclear weapons but so does America and they have more of it too, there has been talk that since succeeding his father Kim Jong Il in 2011, the younger Kim has not been able to command the full respect of the communist party due to his age and inexperience, maybe this is just his way to shut of his critics and show them who is boss.
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