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PETER WORTHINGTON

North Korea plays nuclear game
7:24 am, March 14th, 2013




North Korean leader Kim Jong-un applauds as he is welcomed by members of the military at an undisclosed location. Credits: REUTERS

PETER WORTHINGTON | QMI AGENCY

North Korea is at it again - threatening the world with nuclear holocaust, but this time with intercontinental capabilities that make its bellicose threats a shade more serious.

Of course, no one takes North Korea seriously - even less so, now that the cartoonish Kim Jong-un is running the place and seems intent on establishing himself as a no-nonsense tyrant.

As if to ratchet up his tyranny, Un has announced that the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean war in 1953 is no longer valid. What this means is that a state of war is assumed to exist between North and South, since no formal peace agreement has been signed in the 60 years since 1953.

If Kim expected South Korea to react in panic at his most recent warlike gestures, he seriously miscalculated. South Koreans are arguably the most laid-back people in Asia, carrying on their daily lives of increasing affluence. They are more or less immune to Pyongyang's bluster.

The Americans and South Koreans are holding annual war games near the border in South, which the North views as aggressive, and is staging its own version of nuclear and ICBM intimidation.

By maintaining one of the world's largest armies, North Korea can't afford to adequately feed its people, and accepts food aid from South Korea and the U.S. - by promising to stop nuclear testing, or scrapping its ICBM program.

It then revokes agreements and starts nuclear blackmail all over again.

Even China disagrees with North Korea's latest round of nuclear and ICBM testing. No one expects war, but risk is high for an accidental clash of armies. What should concern the civilized world is North Korea's partnership of sorts with Iran's bid for nuclear weapons. This is an alliance of evil.

There's been so much crying of "wolf" regarding North Korea over the years, that there's almost a blasé attitude each time the threats escalate.

Perhaps the most uncertain aspect of Kim Jong-un's periodic plunges into crisis mode, is his erratic personality that only NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman claims to understand (Kim is a fan).

Flakey leaders of rogue states are always dangerous, and Kim even more so in that his control of North Korea is uncertain. He's surrounded by generals and rivals who lust for his job.

Hence, there's a perpetual atmosphere of purge or be purged. Reports from inside North Korea indicate that more prison camps are being constructed, into which generations of suspected deviants spend their lives, such as they are.

North Korea is an abomination, pure and simple, but something the world has to live with until it implodes.

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