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tw · 11-26-2010, 04:14 PM

Meanwhile, the N Korean leadership problem will be interesting. Kim Jung Il may have been out of power for a period when he was ill. When he may have suffered a stroke. The resulting power brokers then began belligerent activities that Kim may have been suppressing. Including missile launches and a nuclear explosion. We do not really know who was in power when.

But we do know his 25 year old son has been promoted to be the next leader. If that son's face is any indication, right wing extremist power brokers are chopping at the bit to get at him. They are probably looking at someone too naive to grasp the reins of power. If true, Korea will become a hot spot - IOW a much hotter spot.

We know Jimmy Carter could negotiate a solution to Korea because Kim was so fully in control of his extremists. And we know right wing Republican dominated legislation undermined that deal - and Kim in the eyes of his extremists.

What we do not know is who will be controlling Korea - even with Kim's son as the beloved leader. This is not what extremists and simpletons understand. It is not the soundbyte that only informed Americans learn. But it is the state of Korea. North Korea has a power vacuum now that Kim Sung Il has lost so much control in the past few years. Maybe to a power block of wacko extremists. Hopefully only to moderates who are using belligerence as a cover for their more enlightened perspectives. Informed students of current events are concerned - as we all should be. If wacko extremists get control, then things could actually get nasty.

11-26-2010, 04:14 PM	#24
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Meanwhile, the N Korean leadership problem will be interesting. Kim Jung Il may have been out of power for a period when he was ill. When he may have suffered a stroke. The resulting power brokers then began belligerent activities that Kim may have been suppressing. Including missile launches and a nuclear explosion. We do not really know who was in power when. But we do know his 25 year old son has been promoted to be the next leader. If that son's face is any indication, right wing extremist power brokers are chopping at the bit to get at him. They are probably looking at someone too naive to grasp the reins of power. If true, Korea will become a hot spot - IOW a much hotter spot. We know Jimmy Carter could negotiate a solution to Korea because Kim was so fully in control of his extremists. And we know right wing Republican dominated legislation undermined that deal - and Kim in the eyes of his extremists. What we do not know is who will be controlling Korea - even with Kim's son as the beloved leader. This is not what extremists and simpletons understand. It is not the soundbyte that only informed Americans learn. But it is the state of Korea. North Korea has a power vacuum now that Kim Sung Il has lost so much control in the past few years. Maybe to a power block of wacko extremists. Hopefully only to moderates who are using belligerence as a cover for their more enlightened perspectives. Informed students of current events are concerned - as we all should be. If wacko extremists get control, then things could actually get nasty.