RE: Is It Time To Take Military Action Against North Korea?
We should re-examine our willingness to assume that Kim Jong Un is psychologically unstable.
Mainstream media and punditry will drill this idea into one's head and it becomes for us "fact" that we sprinkle our comments with, faithfully ever after.
No doubt we do see "survival mode" behavior as we would with most anyone who has been backed into a corner.
But madness?
We should also be willing to consider that efforts to control and dictate to North Korea, and now to threaten militarily, are the prime reasons for their interest in nuclear weapons to begin with.
The "West" seems unable to tolerate dissent, and inability to eventually control through political means all too often escalates into a military solution.
Obviously I am personally against this behavior of power mad politicians who unleash the military in order to "make the world safe for democracy" . .
Indeed
I don't think so. It is possible we are being deceived but the continuous provocations by NK cannot be considered rational (at least not by me).
When viewed through Kim's perspective (to the extent which imagination allows) and taking into account the context of a recent internal power struggle to consolidate power, while fending off external pressures from the West, I would consider his moves and decisions to be absolutely rational when one considers the goal . .
i.e. to gain and hold on to power
In this regard one could say that Mr. Un and the West have something very much in common.
But by doing so he may actually be hastening his own demise. It is certainly an interesting way to examine it.
Agreed.