Leverage is the Kim family game and has been since July 27, 1953 when Kim III’s grandfather picked up the shambles remaining in North Korea as Chinese troops exited north and Stalin began refilling his ammunition belts. Their family’s long game remains unchanged. While South Korea followed the capitalist path to gain leverage in world affairs and among neighbors, the Kim family followed Stalin’s model of Dictatorship of the Proletariat. We should have no confusion about that path. While war can be the ultimate consequence, it is not the intended consequence.
The intended consequence is maximizing leverage against the primary enemy, which is the U.S., the capitalist power sponsoring capitalism in Seoul. To Pyongyang the South Korean regime is weak, always has been. Without their U.S. ally, they are pussies while in Kim’s own mirror his regime is strong, resolute and backed by every comrade north of the 38th parallel.
So he is engaged in no contest beyond leverage. With his claimed hydrogen bomb attached to a missile system he is close to maximizing his leverage. That does not mean war, it means an ideal time to negotiate via the United Nation’s Security Council and end the century-old war with capitalism: South Korea, Japan and its ally, the U.S.
Kim sees the U.S. and U.N. as backing two losing powers in Asia’s Pacific War, Tokyo and Pyongyang. Meanwhile, he is allied with two winners, Moscow and Beijing. So the Security Council now may be ideally situated to again negotiate.
Plenty of back doors if our leaders are willing to use them.
My short synopsis of how to resolve our ongoing Korean Peace Action. After-all, it’s been my war all these years; now the path seems clearer than in the past.
Post by John Badgley
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