I’ve read accounts from NK escapees who said that nearly everyone in the country knows what’s really going on outside their borders. Nearly every one of them knows that the country is starving while even China is abounding with prosperity. Even the idiot generals with their oversized general officer hats know this. This means that those in power surrounding little Fat Man are as suspectible, as the Iraqi generals were in 2003, to being turned by the CIA. Eventually, one of them would have put a bullet into the head of little Fat Man.
China told him this too. That if he was assassinated, they would merely shrug and send their own troops in to restore order, and maybe take over the country.
So little Fat Man had no choice.
The good news is that our leadership, including John Bolton, will never any denuclearization treaty proceed with airtight verification procedures. Unlike the weenies like Tommy Vietor in the Obama Administration. South Koreans and Europeans will be all over the country during the process. The truth about the outside world will spread like wildfire and will be unstoppable.
The end result? NK will open up. They will, within 5-10 years, overthrow little Fat Man, either peacefully or violently. The Koreas will probably reunify then.
The parallels with East Germany are eerie but true.
“The parallels with East Germany are eerie but true.”
Yes, but just pray that North Korea doesn’t have an Angela Merkel waiting in the wings! That old fat Hausfrau has managed to ruin Germany.