North Korea vows nuclear retaliation for USA-SO.KO. military drills

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Rath said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Rath said:

 

Joking right? Assasinating them would make problems worse, especially in Iran. Iran has a grass roots progressive movement, it's best left alone if it's to flourished. In N.Korea assassinating Kim Jong Il would lead to certain war and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths.

This is a classic realpolitik reasoning, similar to what prevented France and UK from having Hitler killed asap. And guess what? Things just kept on going worse and at the end of WWII half Europe was given to Stalin (that actually initially planned to share it with Hitler, before Hitler's folly screwed up their plan, and was never punished for this, he eventually grabbed what he wanted with UK and USA permission instead).

So an assassination, even with its worst consequences, would just be a lesser bad. In Iran's case it would be necessary to kill the most integralist ayatollahs too, leaving alive the moderate ones, and obviously also the highest ranking pasdaran officers, so a well organized conspiracy would be necessary. But in North Korea, Kim's death would at the very least bring the limited positive effects of Stalin's death in the former USSR.

Stalin wasn't assassinated. Kim Jong Ils natural death (which probably isn't far off) will hopefully be good for N.Korea, assassination almost certainly wouldn't be, it would be a very legitimate casus belli.

Also you think there would be any moderate ayatollahs left after you assassinate half of them? They'll all become radicals.

I know Stalin died for a stroke and most probably left to die (but back then doctors could have done very little anyway) and what's curious, lower classes mourned him sincerely until his crimes were fully revealed. OTOH North Koreans are almost starving to death and I'm quite sure they wouldn't mind if somebody accelerated Kim's departure.

Moderate ayatollahs aren't stupid, and seeing the integralist ones killed while they were spared, they'd be quite quick to understand that the wind has changed.

BTW using Austrian rifles, besides their superior quality, is also to avoid a possible direct link to USA. Anyway, it would be better to outsource operations to Mossad, integralists couldn't by any means hate Israel more than now...