[lucky american]

Kim has backed himself into a corner. He’ll have to come up with a way to save face. That may end badly.

[illiac]

Yeh....paint him into the corner and he may want to try to fight....

[Myrddin]

He’ll have to come up with a way to save face.

Too late with that mug.

[caww]

Indeed....and he’s diggin himself deeper as he goes. What fools...but then in the end the people might eat something.....he uses his people in the most vilest way in humanity.

[WhiskeyX]

This bellicosity is a ploy to blackmail the international community to back off from economic sanctions against North Korea. It is also a gambit to get China to refrain from criticizing North Korea’s resumption of the production of weapons grade plutonium in the restart of its nuclear reeactor/s.

[riri]

A more serious and seasoned state department would understand that and help him to it, to make the situation diffuse.

However, with the world economies melting down, more debts than money, etc. I am not so sure the int'l bankers are not looking for a big, ugly world war.

[chessplayer]

Kim has backed himself into a corner. He’ll have to come up with a way to save face. That may end badly.

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Yup. He’s ratcheted things up so high now that he almost has to do something to save face with the generals.

[Quickgun]

Some claim either he thinks his power is waning, or it actually is waning, but either way, failed dictators seldom go home and live happily ever after. So he may not be afraid to out with a bang. And i have no doubt they cost many lives. If they suddenly opened up on South Korea, and invaded them, we would have a ground war to deal with.

[tsowellfan]

Kim has backed himself into a corner. He’ll have to come up with a way to save face. That may end badly.

You mean like send a million man army into South Korea?