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Jung H. Pak, a former CIA analyst now at the Brookings Institute, offers a fascinating, in depth look North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Despite all the chest-thumping and bad behavior, Kim is not looking for a military confrontation with the United States, Pak reports on brookings.com.
He is rational, not suicidal, and given his almost-certain knowledge of the significant deficiencies in North Korea's military capacity, he is surely aware that North Korea would not be able to sustain a prolonged conflict with either South Korean or the U.S., Pak adds.
We can still test Kim's willingness to pursue a different course and shift his focus toward moves that advance denuclearization. We can do so through strengthening regional alliances -- especially with South Korea and Japan -- that are demonstrably in lockstep on the North Korea issue. We can also increase stresses on the North Korean regime by cutting off resources that fund its nuclear weapons program and undermine Kim's promise to bring prosperity to North Koreans, and ramp up defense and cyber capabilities to mitigate the threat posed by North Korea.
We should also intensify pressure on the regime through information penetration, raising public awareness of Pyongyang's human rights violations, and create a credible, alternative vision for a post-Kim era to encourage defections.
Kim Jong-Un is still learning. Let's make sure he's learning the right lessons, Pak wrote.
For more: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-education-of-kim-jong-un/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=BPIAds&utm_campaign=EssayKorea&utm_term=NoNoCtyUS-18%5E65-NoListNoCAnoBHV&utm_content=145495073
Kim Jong-Un.
Jung H. Pak, a former CIA analyst now at the Brookings Institute, offers a fascinating, in depth look North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Despite all the chest-thumping and bad behavior, Kim is not looking for a military confrontation with the United States, Pak reports on brookings.com.
He is rational, not suicidal, and given his almost-certain knowledge of the significant deficiencies in North Korea's military capacity, he is surely aware that North Korea would not be able to sustain a prolonged conflict with either South Korean or the U.S., Pak adds.
We can still test Kim's willingness to pursue a different course and shift his focus toward moves that advance denuclearization. We can do so through strengthening regional alliances -- especially with South Korea and Japan -- that are demonstrably in lockstep on the North Korea issue. We can also increase stresses on the North Korean regime by cutting off resources that fund its nuclear weapons program and undermine Kim's promise to bring prosperity to North Koreans, and ramp up defense and cyber capabilities to mitigate the threat posed by North Korea.
We should also intensify pressure on the regime through information penetration, raising public awareness of Pyongyang's human rights violations, and create a credible, alternative vision for a post-Kim era to encourage defections.
Kim Jong-Un is still learning. Let's make sure he's learning the right lessons, Pak wrote.
For more: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-education-of-kim-jong-un/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=BPIAds&utm_campaign=EssayKorea&utm_term=NoNoCtyUS-18%5E65-NoListNoCAnoBHV&utm_content=145495073
Kim Jong-Un watching a missile test launch in North Korea.
Photos: Brookings, Pinterest.
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