.................................The North Korean leadership's Big Picture is actually crystal clear; with our nuclear capability firmly established, Washington's only way out is to negotiate a peace treaty with us to end the Korean War (for the moment there's only the July 1953 armistice). That would imply the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea. Over the Pentagon’s collective dead body - of course.
It has also not escaped the attention of virtually the whole developing world that because of its nuclear status, no NATO or selective "international community" is threatening North Korea with military strikes, bunker buster bombs, regime change or R2P ("responsibility to protect").
So it's back to the mystery now lying at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. Was it a satellite? Was it a missile? Or was it a recording of "heaven-sent statesman" Kim Jong-eun singing Lou Reed’s Satellite of Love?.................READ MORE
