They act like they're afraid of being attacked for two reasons:
1. To try to wring concessions out of The West...
2. To provide an excuse to their population for why the poor bastards must continue to subsist with 13th century living standards...(" We are at war! The Americans want to invade and destroy us! We must make sacrifices to preserve our Glorious Revolution!")
Points well taken.
If I had a military force supplied with obsolete Soviet-era weapons up against the ROK and USA supplied with near state of the art weaponry, I'd be shitting in my pants. Million man army or not.
The excuse used for crappy living conditions is a blockade by the US (never the failure of collectivization or natural conditions causing crop failure).
....why the poor bastards must continue to subsist with 13th century living standards....
One must remember that during that time Europe was dealing with the Black Plague - only someone with the meanest of intelligences would not realize that.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
It's interesting how the Pudgy Successor, after making one bellicose move and saber rattling threat after another, for weeks, just all of a sudden shut up....
He stopped spouting off about the same time as the Boston Bombing...(at the time I was thinking that he might resent being knocked out of the top of the news cycle, and up the ante to bring attention back to himself....but the opposite has happened...)
He hasn't backed down from any of his threats, but he's finally STFU....
And he didn't launch a missile test, or engage in any other provocation that was considered a possibility....
Maybe the Chinese finally read him The Riot Act....
Or maybe his own senior military leadership, realizing the dangerous game he was playing better than he did, muzzled him....
Whatever the explanation, this is clearly a good thing...
We'll see how long it lasts....
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The kabuki drama was mostly for internal consumption all along; just like Putin's bloviating about standing up to the US. The Un-dictator needed to prove that, fat little self-indulged body and all, he was just as 'cheap steak tough' as his father and grandfather. If he had hosted the Korean version of "Death Valley Days" first, the illusion would have fooled half the American voters too.
