Comments on: North Korea continues to play the crazed, powerful weakling to good effect https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/north-korea-continues-to-play-the-crazed-powerful-weakling-to-good-effect/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/north-korea-continues-to-play-the-crazed-powerful-weakling-to-good-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-3758738 Bob Sykes Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:38:15 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52985#comment-3758738 I have to draw the line at “vibrant.” A country with the lowest birthrate in the world, outside monasteries and nunneries, a birthrate that is only one-third replacement, is anything but vibrant. South Korea is a cemetery.

Of course, China, and even Russia, will intervene to keep North Korea afloat. But their influence in the North is not control, and the Kims have agency, whereas the South Koreans do not. This always raises the possibility that the Kims will pull the trigger on WW III.

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