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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He isn't going to win a war with the US.

North Korea has something like 3% the PPP-adjusted per-capita GDP that South Korea does and speaks the same language. If the North-South situation ever normalizes, he is going to be out of a job, because North Korea's population is going to be in South Korea in short order.

He starts a war, he's worse off. He lets tensions go to zero, he's worse off. I expect that his best route is to keep things about as they are.

Which is more or less what the Kim dynasty has been doing for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or y'know improve living conditions in the country and actually become a dear leader who lifted up the country