Can't understand why those guys are shooting at him when they should be leaving with him. Glad he survived. Now he gets to eat and see how the world really is. I don't think it will be much longer before NK is part of the real world. Very soon.
which is why NK would not last very long in a land war. lets say they attack SK, and then the troops move in, and they see what the rest of the world is actually like and realize they have been lied to all their lives. Does Rocket Man actually think they would continue to fight for him?
Thats not the problem, NK does not and never did stand a chance millitarily.
Until few years ago, they had enough artillery to wreck Seoul, the Capital of South. But IMO, combined firepower of US, SK and Japan would be more than enough to shock and awe the entire place and cut the CnC from Pyongyang to the border where you have the mass of artilleries pointing to Seoul. All US Presidents upto Bush had the option to take care of it IMO.
Now they probably have enough nukes to wreck SK and Japan.
These strategic decisions aren't controlled by foot soldiers and the guys firing the artillery shells or shooting nukes aren't the ones crossing the borders.
The question now is are SK, Japan and US willing to risk a nuclear missile slipping by and hitting Seoul or Tokyo?
The answer is a big resounding NO, the only reason Kim's govt surivives is becuase that govt has forged an effective detterence against external millitary action, else Kim would have gone down like Gaddafi or Saddam.
If his regime is near collapse and and if Kim feels it's due to machinations of his enemies (sanctions) he may as well say, "I'm going down anyway, so I'm gonna take you guys with me". So you just can't play silly game with a regime that has nukes. It's no more middle East or Africa or South America where everyone and their mums are busy playing game of thrones.
No, what you do is do some symbolic actions, slap on the wrist(token Chinese sanctions) talk tough (tweet like Trump) and do nothing but try and keep things rational and hope someone with direct access to dictator does the deed quickly and smoothly and obtains power very fast and hope that person is less of a lunatic than the guy he's replacing.
Good luck putting the genie back in this bottle. Trump's been dealt a bad card here.
NK conducted first nuke test during Bush's regime, that was the moment when options were lost and a credible detterence forged by NK, but as we all know, Bush was rather busy conjuring WMDs out of thin air in Baghdad instead of taking care of the real shit.