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opcorn2
- Feb 26, 2001
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is vowing a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States. The harsh rhetoric Thursday comes hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.
Such inflammatory rhetoric is common from North Korea. But it has been coming regularly in recent days. North Korea is angry over the possible sanctions and over upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills
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The North Korean leader is faced with a unique challenge not uncommon go such isolated unitary regimes: Casus belli, which is Latin meaning justification for war.
The North Korean population has been taught for so long that the United States is their enemy that to take any other position risks outright revolt. For them, the casus belli (or justification for war) is so strong that to choose any other path invokes cognitive dissonance.
If Kim Jong Un were to sincerely reach out to the United States and the rest of the world he would quickly find himself deposed by his own inner circle. It is a case where casus belli has become the populist sentiment. In this respect the tail has wagged the dog for so long that the dog can't stop.
RAYMOND - we got bigger fish to fry
An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.
Such inflammatory rhetoric is common from North Korea. But it has been coming regularly in recent days. North Korea is angry over the possible sanctions and over upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills
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The North Korean leader is faced with a unique challenge not uncommon go such isolated unitary regimes: Casus belli, which is Latin meaning justification for war.
The North Korean population has been taught for so long that the United States is their enemy that to take any other position risks outright revolt. For them, the casus belli (or justification for war) is so strong that to choose any other path invokes cognitive dissonance.
If Kim Jong Un were to sincerely reach out to the United States and the rest of the world he would quickly find himself deposed by his own inner circle. It is a case where casus belli has become the populist sentiment. In this respect the tail has wagged the dog for so long that the dog can't stop.
RAYMOND - we got bigger fish to fry
