Is Kim in Control of North Korea’s military?

Coach is Right ^ | April 6th, 2013 | Jim Emerson, staff writer

[darkwing104]

North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jung Un is playing a mean game of chicken with South Korea and the United States. This is how chubby little dictators behave to gain the attention of world leaders and garner support—grudging or otherwise– of their own populace. Most likely he is in a power play with older military leaders in a political battle royal to keep himself in power.

Nukes

This week the tyrant-in-training authorized the North Korean military to use untested nukes against American bases in South Korea. In poker this is called a bluff. It is also a ploy mainly for domestic consumption, not for external interests. Kim is untested and basically an unknown entity whose erratic behavior is a sign of immaturity which may lead to an inadvertent war. In fact, the only adults keeping Kim in check in the rouge nation are members of Korea’s military leadership. During the current Kim power play, western think tanks and military officials have been unsure whether Kim is actually in charge of his own military. And that is obviously dangerous.

China

The current Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has shown signs of losing patience with the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jung Un. In fact, China agreed with United Nations sanctions against North Korea after its most recent nuclear test. The mobilization of China’s military along the North Korean border is likely an effort to control the flow of refugees and defecting North Korean troops should Lil’ Kim do something particularly stupid in the near future.

[darkwing104]

Beneath bloodcurdling threats of nuclear war, the north Korean leader's agenda is simple: survival

Kim Jong-un has made a decent fist of rattling the US

[Starboard]

...untested and basically an unknown entity whose erratic behavior is a sign of immaturity
**********
This description has a very familiar ring to it...

[GeronL]

Kim3 is likely a puppet

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” the rouge nation”

Phttttt.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I don’t know.

Do not underestimate him. Just saying.

[mnehring]

I believe hunger rules their army. I believe if the DPRK army starts amassing on the border, everyone in South Korea should start cooking BBQ with fans blowing the smell north. All the DPRK army would surrender for a full belly.

[Kartographer]

I think that many are doing just that.

See this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004802/posts

People who are capable of things like that are capable of anything. They are NOT logical to many try and use logic when dealing with people like this. There isn’t much difference between the way Kim thinks from the way these young boys minds work who go into schools and preform their murderous rampages.

[mnehring]

Did you see that video of him shooting a handgun this morning? It was roll on the floor funny if it wasn't so pitiful. He was waving that thing around all his generals with his booger picker on the boom switch. I was waiting for it to go off and kill one of them.

[The Great RJ]

While there may be a few high ranking military officers who know the folly of provoking a war with the US or South Korea, they would face immediate execution if they showed any wavering from Dear Leader's orders. Given the frequent purges of the military leadership their loyalty is almost assured. Since at least two generations of North Koreans know little or nothing about the outside world and have been brainwashed since childhood to firmly believe the propaganda being fed to them, it makes one wonder if there are any rational people left in the country's leadership.

[GeronL]

bump

[catfish1957]

If he wants this war to go happen, he’d better keep one in the chamber as his enenmy approaches. Despots way out you know.

[ConservativeMan55]

You nailed it!

[catnipman]

“If he wants this war to go happen, he’d better keep one in the chamber as his enemy approaches.”

Not gonna help if the Norks provoke nuclear retaliation. Not enough time to make the decision, raise the gun, and pull the trigger, esp. considering how inept he appears to be with handguns.

[DoctorBulldog]

[Starboard]

Only a reckless fool or a Democrat would wave a weapon around like that. LOL

[Starboard]

Great post! Obama has a head start on KJU.

[Lx]

I hope this is real and I live in Ca.

Gotta go sometime.

[onedoug]

Bring it you little snot.

I’m so damned sick of obama’s America that we might as well have it out right now!

And the rest of you inside-out islamists, here’s your effin’ chance too.

Yellow bastards, all.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Dissension in the ranks will not prevent this war posture and is in fact most likely causing it. The generals are well fed but I bet everyone below them knows what it means to go to bed with an empty stomach.

There may be no open defiance but it appears to me that Lil’Kim feels some domestic pressure so he turned to the tin-pot dictator playbook and it says “rattle sabre.”