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July 14, 2005
North Korea - "Deal me in, boys"
North Korea announced recently that it would rejoin six-party nuclear talks. This comes one month after the North said it had a stockpile of nuclear weapons and was making more. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il recently told a Chinese envoy that he is interested in a nuclear-free peninsula. On the surface it seems like a lot of contradictory moves. However, if one assumes that Kim is really after power on an international scale, his political moves are not that difficult to comprehend.
Kim seems to want power, he is not suicidal as far as one can tell. I would assume he will not go to war with the U.S. I believe that he is a megalomaniac. He wants to be a player. That would only happen if he had either economic or military power. And since he doesn't have much of an economy he needs to nuclear card to sit at the table with all the big boys. They would be forced to include him in major decisions in the region. This would not be the case otherwise. Without those weapons he couldn't play. Plus he could extract more economic aid as long as he was waving his nuclear cards around. If I were him, I doubt that I would give up those weapons.
Posted by Chip Spear at July 14, 2005 12:30 PM
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