NORTH KOREA'S CLOWN PROVOCATEUR: KIM JONG IL USES CRISES TO MAINTAIN POWER. WE SHOULD NOT RISE TO THE LATEST BAIT.

"Anyone is certainly entitled to be alarmed by North Korean nuclear weapons — even if very few, relatively small and of uncertain detonation. A regime of Pyongyang's ilk should not even possess firearms, let alone fission bombs. But this is not a new menace, and nothing is added to its gravity by the testing of ballistic missiles."


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North Korea's clown provocateur

Kim Jong Il uses crises to maintain power. We should not rise to the latest bait.


By Edward N. Luttwak

EDWARD N. LUTTWAK is a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

July 7, 2006


IT IS PERFECTLY clear why the North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il tests its ballistic missiles after slow and elaborate preparations easily photographed by satellites. Kim is trying his best to attract attention by being deliberately provocative, which is very important to the world's most grotesque dictatorship.

The focus of Pyongyang's propaganda is the worship of Kim, depicted as the world's greatest leader — whose every statement and deed is of global significance and whose political and economic genius has made North Korea into a universally envied paradise.

That picture collides with the reality of North Korean misery and periodic starvation, and it is in spectacular contrast to South Korean affluence. But at least the regime can claim global importance whenever the outside world loudly reacts to its provocations.




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