With North Korean leader Kim Jong-un calling a Worker’s Party of Korea Congress—just the seventh in the Hermit Kingdom’s history—to begin Friday, speculation is running rampant as to the meaning of the significant development. At the last congress, convened in 1980, the nation’s founder, Kim Il-sung, declared his son, Kim Jong-il—Kim Jong-un’s father—as his heir. Jong-il took over in 1994 upon Il-sung’s death.
North Korea faces tightening sanctions over its clandestine nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Even China, its closest ally, signed off on the latest round of withering penalties.
But now, as the secretive nation ramps up its testing and takes an even more aggressive posture with its Democratic neighbor, South Korea, there is growing concern about what the calling of a party congress could mean. READ MORE
Pretty simple: it’s all bluffing, posturing, and crying wolf……..right up to when it isn’t.
The question has always been who will be insane enough to drop a nuke on an enemy over minor issues, or even perceived slights.
I will say this, in MY opinion, for the first time in history there is a world leader of a nuclear power who would obviously use a atomic bomb just because he felt as if he was in political danger in his own country. In other words, he’ll do it just to look good.
Un is a scary son of a bitch, and I sure hope we are plotting a way to remove him……not rom office…..from this world.