Quote Originally Posted by LX_Emergency View Post
Not so difficult....NK has a food shortage....start a war...people die....less food needed plus the chance of conquering some new territory which can provide food.

Pretty simple (if insane) if you think about it.
That is a horrible picture you are painting here. Of course you might be right, but there are many factors that speak against it.

One thing, imho, is almost sure. If Kim-Jong-Il (or his successor) is about take his country into full-time war, it will also mean the ending of his rule. Way or another. Sooner or later. In the end his country would be ruined and destroyed, probably occupied with western and/or Chinese troops that getting back to old regime would be impossible. Kim-Jong-Whoever knows this. He might be lunatic but who's to say he is stupid or suicidal?

Remember that it is almost impossible for us in the west to get any reliable and objective information on Absurdistan (eh i meant North Korea).