Dizasta1
Senior Member
Something is definitely up ... the pace and intensity with which Pyongyang is carrying out these nuclear tests and missile tests. Seems to indicate that they are in a rush to get these weapons readied and put into production. That sort of behavior usually a good indicator of how things would transpire and leaves very little to the imagination on how rapidly international peace begins to deteriorate. Of course the real question to ask is, why is Pyongyang so frantically getting these tests done? 64 years the country was trodding along without any such activity. But now, it's like as if someone has poked it in the wrong place and the reaction is violent. What would prompt Pyongyang to behave this way? The U.S & SK have held exercizes for many years. Surely this is not the trigger and if it isn't, then what is?
Recounting the years and months prior to the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. One of the triggers was Kuwait's refusal to reduce production of oil as requested by Iraq. The latter had just finished fighting a near decade long war with Iran and was reeling economically. It needed the oil production to stabilize in order for it to recover from the war against Iran. Kuwait's outright refusal was one of the major triggers of Iraq invading it. Failure to reduce production, in order to increase oil prices and in turn provide Iraq with sufficient $$$ to recover. Without such a mechanism in place, with all OPEC members agreeing to this, spelled doom for Iraq. They were near bankrupt under Saddam's crusade against Iran. So if such a scenario was behind Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Then one has to ask the question as to why North Korea is going about developing Nuclear Weapons at an alarmingly fast pace?!
We live in a globalised world now and no two instances can be interpreted as "stand alone". Everything is interconnected and one needs to critically assess why things are the way they are.
Recounting the years and months prior to the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. One of the triggers was Kuwait's refusal to reduce production of oil as requested by Iraq. The latter had just finished fighting a near decade long war with Iran and was reeling economically. It needed the oil production to stabilize in order for it to recover from the war against Iran. Kuwait's outright refusal was one of the major triggers of Iraq invading it. Failure to reduce production, in order to increase oil prices and in turn provide Iraq with sufficient $$$ to recover. Without such a mechanism in place, with all OPEC members agreeing to this, spelled doom for Iraq. They were near bankrupt under Saddam's crusade against Iran. So if such a scenario was behind Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Then one has to ask the question as to why North Korea is going about developing Nuclear Weapons at an alarmingly fast pace?!
We live in a globalised world now and no two instances can be interpreted as "stand alone". Everything is interconnected and one needs to critically assess why things are the way they are.
