I guess I’ll pile on here. The best reason is they don’t have the logistical capability to prosecute a war in SK for any sustained period of time.
They’ve got lousy tanks, lousy airplanes, and just enough fuel to get those lousy pieces of Cold War shit across the border before they run down, and that’s assuming they still work despite the lack of equipment and parts and training to maintain them. Hell, they don’t have enough fuel to do minimal training for the tank crews and pilots, much less launch towards Seoul.
Worse yet, their soldiers are poorly trained and malnourished.
The best reason for not attacking the South is they can’t win and they know it. They’d need serious Chinese support, and China isn’t interested in starting WWIII.
Question their rationality all you want, but they’ve never been crazy enough to do something to actually endanger their existence. That may be changing now, but that appears to be a sign of desperation more than genuine irrationality.
I don’t feel the least bit guilty. We won, they lost. Tough titty.
If NK fired off a nuke at us or our allies I would be completely in favor of paving the whole country. Sucks to be a NK civilian, but thems the breaks.
If that were the case, China wouldn’t be a communist country. The USSR would have fallen sooner. Ireland wouldn’t have had to wait almost an entire century to gain indepence.
Elementary doctrine regarding nuclear warfare says that we’d be obligated to. If the US allowed itself to be nuked and didn’t respond in kind against the aggressor, it would send a signal to every other nation in the world that attacking us is fair game.
Didn’t this p.o.s. actually graduate from a western university? Or, at least, go to private school in Switzerland, or whatever? How completely twisted is this line of little dumpy p.o.s.'s?
Everyone who thinks the dumpy little clone of his gramps is actually in charge of anything other than his own bowel movements, please raise your hand. Anyone? Anyone?
Here’s a serious question, to which I’m not educated enough about North Korea’s political structure to know the answer to:
What would happen if Kim Jong Un were to accidentally bump his head into a bullet or two? Is there another relative waiting in the wings? Or is it conceiveable that someone else who actually gives a shit about the North Korean people could rise to power?
(I’m not certain who would actually provide said bullets. The U.S. would never do such a thing. No! I’m sure Kim would be tough to get to, but not impossible for someone with enough skill, training, and determination. Besides, it’s a hypothetical.)
No, on the contrary, it is the entire establishment that is keeping him in confrontation mode. People who don’t play along tend to have ‘car accidents’.
I get the impression that, North Korea being a Communist country and all, that the leadership is decided strictly on merit. Such a worker’s paradise has no place for a dynastic or imperial line of succession. It’s just a coincidence that each person best suited for the job has been the son of the previous one.
I don’t think the country even pretends to be Communist anymore. I thought they’d stripped references to Communism out of their official documents and that these days they only talk about Juche, the state religion/philosophy. There are several other Kim children, and I’m not sure who the top advisers are supposed to be.
Except for the fat fucks in charge, they are all already starving - literally. They are so controlled and brainwashed that they would never revolt and overthrow these assholes. Instead, they have been carefully and deliberately conditioned to see them as gods.
One and the same Korean letter ㄹ does double duty for both [r] and [l], depending on position:
When it comes before a consonant or at the end of a word, it comes out as [l].
When it’s between two vowels, it becomes [r].
Koryŏ 고려 (or Goryeo) has it as [r] because the sequence “yŏ” is counted as a vowel sound in Korean.
Edit:
Which is the technically linguistic term for it, “complementary” meaning that where conditions allow the pronunciation of [l], then [r] becomes impossible, and vice versa. While “contrastive” as in English means they make the difference between two words that are otherwise exactly the same, as in fly vs. fry.