Ultimately....

The dear departed, penultimate ruler of North Korea assessed the potential among his children and it was Kim Jong-un who found favour with Kim Jong-il, because of what his father felt to be a "ferocious" nature. The tiger cub could roar. His older brother, Kim Jong-nam lost his father's respect because of his obsession with Disneyland. North Korea is a demented Disneyland run amok.

Kim Jong-un did not disappoint his father's expectations, making quick work of dispensing of the family competition. And since then engaging in a Stalinist purge of those in the military and the government whom he deemed insufficiently respectful to his exalted position exemplified by his inherited title as "the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong-un, brilliant commander".

Presumably, the sun shines upon this fine figure of a man through a most intimate bodily orifice. And he has undertaken his family-inherited project; the reunification of the Koreas. Whereby North Korea with its population, about one-quarter of that of South Korea, has intentions of ruling both North and South as one big happy family, dispensing with the government of South Korea and replacing it.

Irrespective of the incontrovertible fact that the North depends on international handouts to feed its people, and uses a system of work camps to imprison, torture and dispose of political dissenters, it does have its ambitions. First among which is to be admired and respected as a world-leading nation of scientific enterprise and social-political utopia. To achieve that position, Pyongyang must rule Seoul.

The economic powerhouse of South Korea with its industrial giants Daewoo, Hyundai and Samsung, will be the North's possessions. The imperfect politics of democracy will be shed in favour of the North hero-worshipping Stalinist-type governance. It is, quite simply, nobly superior. Koreans must be led to recognize that simple fact. And Kim Jong-un is just the person to perform that little task.

This kind of warped logic leads to the renouncing of the 1953 armistice agreement, placing the South on notice that it is on a war footing with the North. In good time, when the timing is precisely right, there will be a "military provocation" of intolerable insult to the pride of the North, prompting it to respond, not as a local conflict, but a "nuclear war".

Where the North would "occupy all areas of South Korea", and "blow up" U.S. bases "in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam". Kim Jong-un is shown signing military orders with a chart marked "U.S. mainland strike" behind him in photographs shown on the state-operated Rodong newspaper.

North Korea's immense standing army (1,350,000 // 4,700,000 reserve) -- as a fundamentally militarized nation toward which all available resources are geared -- is prepared to face off against the South's Combined Forces Command with its 600,000 active duty personnel, inclusive of 37,500 U.S. forces, augmented by 3.5 million South reservists.

The North contemplates a successful series of nuclear launches; they surely know what others do not, and merely guess at.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency believes "with moderate confidence that the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles; however the reliability will be low." The question is, will deterrence which worked so admirably with Russia, and with China, North Korea's sponsor, also convince North Korea how insanely foolhardly its plan for domination is?

Just wondering.