Not to sound ignorant

[Burney]

It's all just posturing from Kim though, isn't it? Designed purely to impress his people and make him seem powerful. The Don knows that the Kim dynasty isn't suicidal and launching an attack on Guam or indeed any other US ally would result in the country being blown to kingdom-come and therefore the end of said dynasty.

Who knows? How long can such a regime be allowed to destabilise the region and threaten key US interests? There is no doubt he's building a nuclear weapons programme and wants ICBMs. At what point does the US act? Before he's achieved that or after?

[Rich]

Who knows? How long can such a regime be allowed to destabilise the region and threaten key US interests? There is no doubt he's building a nuclear weapons programme and wants ICBMs. At what point does the US act? Before he's achieved that or after?

Well my opinion is that he wants a nuclear arsenal to protect his dynasty from being overthrown in the same way that Gadaafi was. I assume that Kim is actually a very intelligent man and even if he believes his own bravado, will know that the use of a nuclear/conventional weapon on South Korea/Japan/US territory would result in the entire world (including maybe even China) deciding that he needed to be removed ASAP. This is not a battle that he would want.

[Burney]

I assume that Kim is actually a very intelligent man

I have literally no idea why you would assume that. His actions have increased his regime's chances of annihilation, not decreased them.

[Rich]

I have literally no idea why you would assume that. His actions have increased his regime's chances of annihilation, not decreased them.

Wasn't he educated in one of the finest schools in Switzerland? Granted, that doesn't give you intelligence but he's certainly had all the assistance he could want for.

[Burney]

Wasn't he educated in one of the finest schools in Switzerland? Granted, that doesn't give you intelligence but he's certainly had all the assistance he could want for.

He was educated in a very expensive school in Switzerland, from which he emerged without even the equivalent of a single GCSE, with OK English and poor German.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

If the Koreans attack they will end up eating dog.