Kim Jong-un is a young man. When he took over as leader of
North Korea he had an opportunity to make history. He could have initiated a
process that would bring the North and the South together. As a young fellow,
with a long political future in front of him, this would have been the smart
approach, as there is no other way out of the permanent crisis and poverty his
country experiences.
He seems now to have missed the boat. For whatever reasons –lack
of political sense of the realities, poor strategic advice, pressure from the
regime elites, particularly from the military –he has opted for a very serious
escalation of the war rhetoric. Some analysts claim this is the usual bluff, a
recurrent feature in the Pyongyang politics. I am afraid it is more than that.
He and his generals might have managed to be fooled by their own bombastic
nonsense. They might have fallen victims of their own delusion.
The fact of the matter is that at present we have a very dangerous
situation developing in the Korean Peninsula. If by any chance, Kim decides to
launch any attack –in the understanding that he has no means to reach US
territory –he and his regime could end up by paying a very high price for the
folly.
I hope someone is getting ready to tell Kim Jong-un the
truth. Urgently.
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