North Korea: Don't Forget About Us!

Maybe it's Kim Jong-Il's bizarre fascination with film, or maybe he's just feeling neglected and lonely, but it seems like whenever international focus shifts elsewhere in the world, he's just got to rattle his saber a bit to make sure no one forgets that he's still there, and still crazy. The latest attempt is rather sad, as the attention getting is focusing on annual joint US-South Korean military exercises that North Korea seems to consider to be a prelude to invasion, despite the fact that they never have been before.

According to the official KCNA news agency, Pyongyang described the drills as "an undisguised military threat" and a "war action".
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The North Korean military "reserves the right to undertake a pre-emptive action for self-defence against the enemy, at a crucial time it deems necessary to defend itself", an army spokesman is quoted as saying by KCNA.

He added that the US-South Korean drills were a violation of the armistice that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.

The two Koreas remain technically at war, because this armistice was never replaced by a formal peace treaty.

There is currently renewed international concern over North Korea.

It provoked an angry response when it test-fired seven missiles in July, and shows little sign of willingness to return to six-party talks on its nuclear ambitions.
There's really no reason to believe that the overextended US military, in conjunction with a South Korea looking to establish a better rapport with the North would ever take this opportunity to stage a full scale invasion of North Korea. Especially considering that most US intelligence agencies believe that, even without having tested them, North Korea possesses several nuclear weapons, and Kim Jong-Il is just batshit crazy enough to actually use them in case of an emergency, like an invasion.

So we're left to draw the rather depressing conclusion that North Korea just enjoys having attention, even bad press, lavished on it, rather than being overlooked. Maybe their failed missile test is giving the diminutive Kim an inferiority complex and he's looking to make up it for in some way? Most logical explanations fail to account for his renewed belligerence against South Korea, so we're left trying to deduce the actions of a man who seems to have made it his life's work to defy all rationality.

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