Saturday, April 13, 2013

This Might Explain Why We Have Not Done a Pre-Emptive Strike On NoKo

From Yahoo News:

A former North Korean spy who bombed a South Korean airliner said Wednesday that the North's leader Kim Jong-Un is struggling to control his military and using war talk to shore up support. 
Kim Hyun-Hee, who said she was ordered by Jong-Un's father Kim Jong-Il to bomb the airliner in 1987 killing 115 people, said she believes the son is still trying to establish himself following his father's death in December 2011. 
"Kim Jong-Un is too young and too inexperienced," she told Australia's ABC television in an exclusive interview from Seoul, where she lives at an undisclosed location surrounded by bodyguards. 
"He's struggling to gain complete control over the military and to win their loyalty. That's why he's doing so many visits to military bases, to firm up support." 
The North has been turning up the rhetoric for weeks and on Tuesday reiterated a warning that the Korean peninsula was headed for "thermo-nuclear" war, advising foreigners to consider leaving South Korea. 
Kim Hyun-Hee told ABC there was method in the North Koreans' madness in threatening thermo-nuclear war. 
"North Korea is using its nuclear programme to keep its people in line and to push South Korea and the United States for concessions," said Kim, who was captured after boarding the doomed 1987 plane in Baghdad.

4 comments:

Pastorius said...

Maybe the reason is, we believe Kim is the devil we know. But the military people who might replace him could be worse?

Sheesh.

Can it get worse?

Anonymous said...

If the military replaces the fat puppy, who will the NK people worship - not the military?

Anonymous said...

American in DPRK illustrates how protective the general population protects their 'great' leader of the moment. It's difficult to imagine the NK populace remaining unified if the idolized god-like fat boy is taken down by the military.

Pastorius said...

Good points.