Follow up: N.Korea Affairs

I wrote "Kim Jong-il is preparing to strike Japan, but he wouldn't really do that" yesterday. Here's why I think so.

They will never shot the missile. It's a mind game. In Japanese, 心理戦(shin-ri-sen) or 腹芸(hara-gei). "腹芸" literally means "conspiration art." Every politician need 腹芸 skill to achieve their goals.

North Korea has less money, less food, less military forces. They have trump cards for negotiations---missiles, nukes, abducted Japanese. They will draw our financial and food supports.

The only way of their survival is an international mind game. We need tough negotiators.


More about 腹芸: 腹芸: Stomach Art? No, Conspiracy Art