Fauche wrote:
May be true, but can you really expect the North Koreans to listen? To care? I'm sure they're sitting there, preparing their missiles for long ranged attack. My theory is that Kim Jong Il is planning to go out in a bang, pun intended. He's about to die, and he's starting a bunch of shit up. The way I see it is he's going to do something big before he goes and let his son take care of the rest. What that may be? Seems kind of obvious. Nuclear attack on the U.S.
This scares the shit out of me because one, I'm scared of nukes, and two, I live right next to the U.S., so it's entirely possible Canada may be affected by nuclear explosions, or at least the fallout.
But when you think about it, He'll just be setting North Korea up to be taken down by China if he tries that. Why risk ruining his son's future as a leader?
Maybe I'm putting too much faith in the idea, but China has a lot of power over a small country like North Korea.
But I hardly know much about the whole thing except that the dude's insane. I'm sure my teacher explained it, but I can't remember the whole lecture.

But if he's insane, do you think he'll really care about that? He's nearly dead, he knows no one can do anything to him personally at this point, he's almost free to do whatever he wants. Even IF China were to interfere with their plots, I doubt they'd have the power to stop NK from sending out missiles all over the place if NK really wanted too.