North Korea
yet again is making ‘war type’ noises, threatening to rain missiles down on the
USA and God knows who else. Russia and China must be cringing at the thought of
having to support NK if the possibility comes to fruition.
Of course
the USA has responded calmly by reiterating that they are ready for any eventuality.
There is a certain amount of smugness in this response and perhaps the very fact
that the USA is conducting what can only be assumed to be ‘threatening’
military exercises in South Korea does little to bring down the anti.
Back to the
position of North Korea and its megalomaniacal leader; well that is something else
again. The NKs spend huge amounts of money on military ‘needs’ while many of
the population starve and lack any freedom. The country has been locked away from
the real world for so long that any sense of reality of the world at large for
most NKs is completely lacking. They know nothing but deprivation and whatever
the current leaders have fed them for more than 60 years. Is it any wonder that
they are cowered and have little inclination or the means to challenge their sorry
lives?
If North
Korea follows through on its threats, then the result would be cataclysmic for
them. The USA would be forced to retaliate in kind if NK nuclear weaponry makes
it as far as the USA. NK’s former allies would be stupid to come alongside; instead
they would watch form the side line, knowing that their economic futures are
tied inextricably to that of the USA. Perhaps the ‘global economy’ has a few
good points, at least from a ‘world peace’ perspective, if not much else.
Then again,
perhaps the ‘Dear Leader’ is once again posturing in order to garner support from
his possibly put of control military complex and to persuade the rest of the world
to send in humanitarian aid. He can’t have it both ways!
