North Korea does these saber-rattling exercises all the time. Keeping a constant state of “war” is a way for their leaders to justify ignoring the survival needs of the populace while leading plush lifestyles themselves.
Within North Korea there exists a real world microcosm of George Orwell’s “1984”. A tightly controlled society that has been told and, in the whole, psychologically, socially, economically, and physically-emotionally beaten into believing and/or accepting that they have been at war since the end of WWII, and that that status must continue until the enemy is defeated. The despotic government of N. Korea understands fully their the need to continue the cold/hot war and that harmless but real ‘shots’ must be fired from time to time to keep the ‘story’ real and the people in their place.
churchill…said, “Yet they lob MISSILES toward Japan all the time. Defend that.”*churchill…N. Korea is a despotic-Orwellian regime living in another world, the last thing they want is “Real War”; the real danger is that N. Korea may stumble into war on their own or find themselves unwittingly being invaded by another Nation. Americas current set of GOP nutter’s could well…just like the nutter GW Bush did in Iraq, trump-up cause to invade; Iraq being a place where at least his father understood and had since enough not to continue his/our military run into Baghdad, thus smartly leaving Saddam Hussein in power.
Spyderred about 9 years ago
North Korea does these saber-rattling exercises all the time. Keeping a constant state of “war” is a way for their leaders to justify ignoring the survival needs of the populace while leading plush lifestyles themselves.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
North Korea can hit Seoul with their artillery, don’t need missiles
leweclectic about 9 years ago
Within North Korea there exists a real world microcosm of George Orwell’s “1984”. A tightly controlled society that has been told and, in the whole, psychologically, socially, economically, and physically-emotionally beaten into believing and/or accepting that they have been at war since the end of WWII, and that that status must continue until the enemy is defeated. The despotic government of N. Korea understands fully their the need to continue the cold/hot war and that harmless but real ‘shots’ must be fired from time to time to keep the ‘story’ real and the people in their place.
leweclectic about 9 years ago
churchill…said, “Yet they lob MISSILES toward Japan all the time. Defend that.”*churchill…N. Korea is a despotic-Orwellian regime living in another world, the last thing they want is “Real War”; the real danger is that N. Korea may stumble into war on their own or find themselves unwittingly being invaded by another Nation. Americas current set of GOP nutter’s could well…just like the nutter GW Bush did in Iraq, trump-up cause to invade; Iraq being a place where at least his father understood and had since enough not to continue his/our military run into Baghdad, thus smartly leaving Saddam Hussein in power.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
churchie: when I was in school in 65, used to watch the U.S. launch ICBM missiles from Vandenberg on a regular basis toward Japan.