| mrstickball said: So what part of what has happened isn't true? The BBC reported that the DPRK cut communications with the ROK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21709917#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa Its very rare that the DPRK has gone to this length with blustering. They may not do anything, but its certain that the steps they've taken have been rather anomalous in the past ~20 years. |
Times change, of course, but unless they have become so internally deluded as to believe they can win a full-scale war, then they won't do it. Nobody ever starts a war that they don't think they can win, unless they feel they have absolutely no other choice (and North Korea has lots of other choices for now).
And at the end of the day, North Korea can't win. Unless they had unconditional commitment from China (which they don't) even if they managed to reduce South Korea to cinders somehow, or launch a few nukes at the US west coast, they'd lose a war of attrition.
My belief is that Kim Jong-Un is stepping up his brinksmanship game to demonstrate his capability, both within North Korea and to the rest of the world, that they are still a force to be reckoned with.
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