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May 11, 2005
Kim Jong Il, Why Negotiate?
Imagine for a little while here that you are Kim Jong Il, grand poohbah of North Korea. Your picture is everywhere. Your subjects worship you as a God, or at least they act like they do. Your only care for them is how they might facilitate you path to glory. You kill them if they look at you funny. Your palaces are grand while your subjects have nothing. Why should you care? They are the real little people. Meanwhile, the world looks at you as a maniac, an unruly and out of control crazy. You think they are stupid. To acquire more power you develop nuclear weapons. You lie, you cheat, you sell drugs, you counterfeit any currency you can, especially American and cheat on any agreement that some country is stupid enough to make if it is expedient. Again, why should you care? You get away with it every time. You look at everyone with utter contempt. The current powers of the world are scrambling, attempting to rein you in and control your maniacal tendencies. They really, truly think they can reason with you. They are afraid you will upset all their delicate diplomatic balances. Oh, too bad. The Americans are terrified that you will use that bomb to attack South Korea. They are also fearful that the Japanese might re-build their dormant military. The Chinese, though nervous, seem willing to accept your move, figuring you aren’t stupid enough to attack them. In addition, the Chinese see this as a way to counter American influence in the area. More opportunity for them if the Japanese and South Koreans began to break away from the U.S. Likewise the Russians also see opportunities. If you play your cards right, a nuclear arsenal makes you a powerbroker in the region, an equal at the table of world affairs. Act just crazy enough and the Americans might really think that you’d use a nuclear bomb against the South if they attacked. Why negotiate? Why would you care about American aid for your subjects, who you could care less about, when you would become a major player on the world stage? Who would have thought? You are scoring big on this one.
Posted by Chip Spear at May 11, 2005 9:36 PM
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