Kim Jong-Un Has Made a Choice To Start a War
For several months now, experts on North Korea have been expressing serious concerns about the global change in the position of dictator Kim Jong-un, the Financial Times reports.
In January, two prominent researchers, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, said that Kim Jong-un “has made a strategic decision to go to war.” Carlin has long been the head of the US State Department’s North Korea team. Hecker is the former head of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Each of them has visited North Korea on numerous occasions. They concluded that Kim had decided to abandon diplomatic initiatives with the United States and South Korea in favor of confrontation. According to their estimates, the DPRK’s nuclear weapons arsenal could include up to 50-60 warheads, and Kim’s rhetoric suggests the possibility of a military conflict involving their use.
Like Xi Jinping and Putin, Kim Jong-un believes that the United States is in a state of long-term decline and sees this as a historic chance to gain an advantage in confronting his opponents against the backdrop of global restructuring, which Xi Jinping calls “changes that have not been seen in a century.”
Formally, China shows concern to the world about the deepening cooperation between the two dictators. But in reality, Beijing actually controls Moscow and Pyongyang and uses them to attack the democratic world.
At the same time, there is a widespread tendency in the West to treat North Korea as a curiosity and underestimate its real capabilities. The Kim regime, although ruling one of the poorest countries in the world, is not technologically backward. North Korea possesses nuclear weapons, has developed ballistic missiles, and has significant cyber capabilities that even states such as Iran and Syria lack.
The DPRK army has 1300,000 troops, making it the fourth largest in the world, although most soldiers are recruits with limited training and equipment. However, such numbers can help in tactics that rely on high numbers of infantry.
The Ukrainians have already killed more than 600,000 invaders and the Russian army is severely short of troops. The involvement of the first 10,000 North Korean special forces is an additional support for dictator Putin.
Kim Jong-un is helping Putin in exchange for raw materials, food, foreign exchange, but first and foremost, missile technology. With long-range missiles, he will be able to blackmail and threaten the United States.
And if the North Korean military returns from the war in Europe alive. They will pass on the combat experience they have gained to their colleagues. This will definitely raise morale and strengthen the North Korean army before the offensive to the south.
