{"id":25277,"date":"2017-09-06T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25277"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:55:51","slug":"the-insanity-in-korea-but-is-it-logical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25277","title":{"rendered":"The Insanity in Korea \u2013 But Is it Logical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/north-korea\/the-insanity-in-korea-but-is-it-logical\/\">The Insanity in Korea \u2013 But Is it Logical?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kim-Hydrogen-Bomb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67855\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kim-Hydrogen-Bomb.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kim-Hydrogen-Bomb.jpg 485w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kim-Hydrogen-Bomb-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kim-Hydrogen-Bomb-180x135.jpg 180w\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2109725\/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-risk-imploding-chinese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>South China Post<\/strong><\/a> reported that Chinese scientists fear that a\u00a0mountain in North Korea under which the last five bombs detonated as tests, may collapse crumbling into a crater. They fear that the radiation underground would then leak across region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the escalating crisis concerning\u00a0North Korea\u2019s weapons program is placing the world at risk of developing into a \u201cglobal catastrophe\u201d with massive casualties. Putin has <strong>UNREALISTICALLY<\/strong> said that\u00a0the only way to resolve the crisis was through diplomacy. For that to be even a possibility, it requires talking. Kim Jong Un has not even met with the leader of China \u2013 its once closet <em>Allies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Let\u2019s put this is perspective. Why is Kim pushing the world to the brink? Kim Jong Un looks at this differently He believes that the survival of his regime depends on possessing nuclear weapons. He is most likely <strong>NOT<\/strong> interested in starting a nuclear war for he cannot be so stupid to believe he would win. Yet, Kim also realizes that the prospect of the USA sending a nuke to North Korea is also not likely for that would antagonize China and risk pollution drifting to South Korea and Japan, not to mention China. So with all the saber rattling, Kim is not stupid and realizes that the USA cannot launch a first strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Now, what is the goal of Kim? To be honest, Kim Jong Un does not trust the USA for from the outsider perspective, he has watched how American\u00a0intervention in Iraq ended in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, his execution as well as family members, and left the country ravaged by war and a puppet of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Insanity in Korea \u2013 But Is it Logical? The South China Post reported that Chinese scientists fear that a\u00a0mountain in North Korea under which the last five bombs detonated as tests, may collapse crumbling into a crater. They fear that the radiation underground would then leak across region. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5496,130,8312,3558,5479,2006,15892,827],"class_list":["post-25277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-china","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-north-korea","tag-south-china-post","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25278,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions\/25278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}