Name:   copperline - Subject:   How seriously should we take North Korea? Date:   4/3/2013 8:41:04 PM

i did find a part of the story about the Joint Korean industrial zone to be really interesting.   Huge numbers of  workers enter the zone from North Korean to work in factories designed, financed & managed by South Koreans.   For the North Korean workers, working or residing in buildings with indoor plumbing, electricity and telephones was described as totally unfamiliar…extremely far from what life is like back home.   Assuming that is true, imagine what the impact on those workers would have when they returned home at night, quietly spreading information like that to other North Korean people.   How destabilizing would that become over time?   

There may be more potential for some sort of political unrest & regime change than we can know, but since their system has no process for transferring leadership other than thru this god-like family dynasty sham… (and that gambit is so completely counter to communist doctrine that you would have to assume there are even North Korean communists who are offended by it, not to mention a populace who don’t want to starve to death).   if the young leader is worried about the stability of his regime, i wonder if that could explain why his actions seem erratic & even bizarre…..