https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230410-north-korea-s-kim-calls-for-expanding-offensive-war-deterrence

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening
the country's war deterrence in a "more practical and
offensive" manner to counter what it called moves of
aggression by the U.S. and South Korea, state media KCNA
said on Tuesday.

Kim made the comment at an enlarged meeting of the Central
Military Commission held on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts
to boost the country's war deterrent to "cope with the
escalating moves of the US imperialists and the south Korean
puppet traitors to unleash a war of aggression," KCNA said.

North Korea has been reacting angrily to a recent series
of the allies' joint military exercises, which KCNA said
were intended to prepare for "an all-out war" and forced
Pyongyang to explore "powerful practical action", including
military options.

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Kim is becoming more and more worrisome - and many
thought he'd long since reached a peak.

He is a weirdo, who likes torturing his enemies - even
(especially?) close relatives, to death. A god complex
if there ever was one. Oh yea, and he also has a tidy
arsenal of fission bombs, a handful of H-bombs AND the
rockets/cruise-missiles to deliver them anywhere in the
world at this point.

Now I think he's more or less controlled by China. He
has his purpose, to say the things they cannot say out
loud, to be The Threat they generally don't want to
appear as. Thing is he can ALSO be used to seriously
attack the assets of the USA and allies all while
China says "Hey ! Wasn't US !".

One nuke can take out a carrier group - crush their
hulls. The more we send near there, the more damage
he can do in a minute. A few big nukes sprinkled across
Japan and the US mainland would cause absolute chaos ...
break that nice 1st-world machine that's already creaking .
China doesn't CARE if we blow up Kim afterwards, he'll
have served his purpose, done their dirty-work.

Of course it may not even come to that. China can crush
us more neatly simply by depriving us of it's "stuff",
from chips to raw and refined materials to all the tiny
little parts that go into EVERYTHING. It can be done
easily, almost innocently. "Manufacturing issues" -
sorry guys ....

You know your country sucks when China would rather
subjugate basket case Russia and your country is never
a consideration.