Indeed, when I say “North Korea” I mean the Kim Family Regime.
The important thing about the family is that they kill each other. Jang Song-thaek who was rumored to be the defacto leader of North Korea in 2009 died in 2013. Finding yourself at the wrong side of a struggle inside the regime means death.
Kim Kyong-hui is a member of the Kim Family clan but I doubt her first priority is to worry about the US.
And it looks like no-one else does either. We don’t have any good options.
There’s the option to trade and thus push for information flow between North Korea and the outside world.
But another problem is, we can’t get good intelligence.
Without access to classified intelligence this is really hard to tell. There are drones flying around and there’s SIGINT intelligence. Information that’s communicated electronically inside of North Korea is subject to interception.
If the U.S. unilaterally uses nukes first, what repercussions does that have for the rest of the world?
That’s why the U.S. is very unlikely to nuke first. Even under Trump that’s unlikely to happen.
The important thing about the family is that they kill each other. Jang Song-thaek who was rumored to be the defacto leader of North Korea in 2009 died in 2013. Finding yourself at the wrong side of a struggle inside the regime means death.
Kim Kyong-hui is a member of the Kim Family clan but I doubt her first priority is to worry about the US.
There’s the option to trade and thus push for information flow between North Korea and the outside world.
Without access to classified intelligence this is really hard to tell. There are drones flying around and there’s SIGINT intelligence. Information that’s communicated electronically inside of North Korea is subject to interception.
That’s why the U.S. is very unlikely to nuke first. Even under Trump that’s unlikely to happen.