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The fact that I even mention North Korea as a “minor power” is stretching it. They have no economy and a conventional military that can only hurt S. Korea. So the only reason they are a world player is that they are testing nuclear weapons. More importantly they have missiles that could carry them to the U.S.
Kim Jong il (best portrayed in the movie: “Team America: World Police”) raised in Russia during WWII, educated in China, he is the “Manchurian Candidate”. He became leader after the death of his father in 1994. N. Korea has broken a deal with the U.S. made in the 90’s, some say it was because the Republican controlled congress pushed too aggressively against N. Korea, but the fact is that this country has too many problems to be concerned about nuclear energy or weapons.
I see N. Korea as a person who threatens suicide without really going through with it. Why do they do it? For the attention. “The leader” who has a degree in Political economics (what ever that means) hasn’t a clue to running any type of economy. So he resorts to blackmail and forgery to prop up his country. A government official of N. Korea was busted with millions in forged U.S. currency and N. Korea had the balls to ask for the cash back.
This failed communist dream of a country is another example of why that form of government and economy goes against human nature and does not inspire the best in man. I rank Kim Jong il as most likely to use his nuclear weapons in a suicide attempt. The question is how we will retaliate with China and Russia as their neighbors and throw him on the trash heap of history.
Chris Mendelsohn
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