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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
What happens to the people of North Korea will be perhaps the most interesting aspect of this. As much as ending the nuclear threat is nice and all, it's worth remembering there are still 25 million people living under brutal, totalitarian conditions. If this ends with no nukes, but those people still living in an alternate reality where they are subject to vast human rights abuses, it's not much of a win overall.
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The Kim's are only concerned with a few things.
The preservation of their power and wealth
Their image outside of their borders as a boogey man threat
The control of their population as slaves to feed the families wealth and excess
I have no doubt that when Kim went to China they told him to play nice and make an effort, and they did.
But that might be as far as they take it. Anything that effects the Kim's powerbase isn't going to be negotiated way.
Remember that the Kims are always involved in a three way battle between the Military, Internal Security Services and Their overall intelligence services.
Giving away Nukes will completely screw him with the Military, opening his borders with ISS.
I'm pretty sure also that this move was made to placate the very large China favorable factions within the government.
Ending the Korean War means very little and scaling back the border security saves some money, and if Kim can convince the American's and Koreans to pull back on US reliance to secure the border its a huge win for him with his military.
But he will never be open on verification beyond the fact that he's ended development and testing, which he can do because he's got ICBM and IRBM's in his arsenal, he has what he needs to back up his military.
What he's probably going to be willing to give is symbolic and allows him to present a major victory to his government, look I made the American's withdraw troops and we're going to keep the nukes that we have.