North Korea’s economic predicament behind the official rhetoric (Donatello Osti, Aspenia online)
10.05.2013 14:18
Conventional wisdom about North Korea’s war rhetoric is that it is solely designed to escalate tensions in order to extract concessions at a later stage. After recent threatening actions which included the DPRK’s third nuclear test, cancelling the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, warning of “surgical strikes” and the sentencing of a US citizen to 15 years of hard labor, the regime of Kim Jong Un is probably getting ready to start the next round of dialogue.