Have they ever?
Posted on 05/30/2010 4:33:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Inside the mind of North Korea's Kim Jong-il
North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il has provoked a dangerous international crisis, yet again. Our correspondent examines the weird and worrying mind of the Dear Leader
By Aidan Foster-Carter
Published: 8:30AM BST 30 May 2010
In the state newspapers there is hysteria about "traitors". In Pyongyang's markets, prices have rocketed - especially for tinned meat, sugar, portable gas stoves and other goods needed to survive a war.
Last week Kim Jong-Il used an extraordinary cabinet meeting to order North Korean ministries to prepare for "all possible unforeseen circumstances, including the worst-case scenario", while the army's combat readiness was raised to the highest level.
His manner, according to well-informed sources in the capital, was "decisive and rough".
North Koreans have been prepared for battle many times before. But over the last few days the secretive communist state and its paranoid leader appear to have reached a new level of hysteria. There were daily civil defence drills, with citizens ordered not to use lights after dark, imprecations to take refuge in bomb shelters when sirens are sounded, and panic buying.
The war of words since the South Korean corvette Cheonan blew apart near the maritime border with the North on March 26, taking 46 of her crew down with her, appears dangerously close to lurching into something worse.
North Korea's dictator is stirring up trouble yet again: making the world nervous, but making little sense. Which is just how the "Dear Leader" likes it.
It is just 10 days since an international team of experts assembled by Seoul pointed the finger of blame for sinking Cheonan squarely at Pyongyang. They produced torpedo parts to prove it, salvaged from the seabed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Inside the mind of Kim...
“...echooooo, echoooooo, echooooo...”
Bump
“In Pyongyang’s markets, prices have rocketed - especially for tinned meat, sugar, portable gas stoves and other goods needed to survive a war.”
OK, right there I’m questioning this article. Meat, sugar, gas stoves? Those are luxuries reserved for the elite! LOL
eeks! I don’t want to go there
Pyongyang is where elites live. I am sure ‘some’ markets have them.
” Meat, sugar, gas stoves? Those are luxuries reserved for the elite! LOL “
They can also considered to be ‘war materiel’ - you may recall that even the US rationed civilian access to meat and sugar during WWII...
Interesting article. I find info on North Korea very interesting. I have seen a couple documentaries on YouTube on North Korea. One involved a young man who had escaped and told of the horrors there. Kim Jong Il will certainly go down in the trash heap of history and will likely see his fellow like-minded brethren, such as Stalin, Lenin, Mao, etc., in a very hot place when he dies.
I mean, you don’t need Tom Clancy to stimulate your imagination. The unfolding events of N. Korea would be more ‘interesting’ than his novel.
I hear that several key players in Kims regime are preparing escapes for themselves and theit own, for when things fall apart...because even they expect them to, sooner or later.
Others, are more *ambitious* in their planning.
bttt
The world’s willingness to dismissing Kim Jong-il as little more than an eccentric with nukes is wrong minded and plays into his hands. He is cunningly trading on North Korea’s only national resource, the perception of being a dangerous and unpredictable state, inorder to preserve a totalitarian monarchy.
Have they ever?
Hey Tiger go on Sunday UK Telegraph they have satellite photo of NORTH Korea this weekend
Thanks
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