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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I think with things ramping up from North Korea [...]
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Things are ramping up...? You had me fooled, because sure seems like the same old #### to me. The DPRK regime rattles their rickety old sabre every once in a while to remind everyone else that they exist and that they could inflict some damage if another country is foolhardy enough to attempt invasion. It's also as much a show of strength to the DPRK proletariat and apparatchiks to keep them afraid and in line, lest somebody get ideas about a coup d'état. Nothing more, nothing less. I see nothing significant about this latest missile launch.
The sad reality is that no one—not the USA, not the ROK, not Japan, not the PRC—really want to get involved and topple the Kim regime. The US, China and Japan don't really care, and the South Koreans don't want to have to deal with the ensuing humanitarian crisis and political change. Reunification of the two Koreas will be eminently more difficult than the German reunification.