A Tsunami is not something to sneeze at.

But seriously, it sounds like Kim is feeling neglected. He does need food for his country, though, and this might be an opening bid at setting up some sort of backwards reason for negotiation to get something.

Haele

electric_blue68

(26,856 posts)

5. Ole' Kim misses drumphf! What a horrid man (well, both actually)

Reply to haele (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 12, 2023, 07:57 PM

Apr 2023

Poor Japan.

crickets

(26,168 posts)

8. Yes, Kim does this to get food. And to show strength in his own country.

Reply to haele (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 12, 2023, 11:21 PM

Apr 2023

Rather than shooting out over the ocean, sending missiles close to or over Japan, though? Yoiks. Not good. Knock it off, dude.

I'm going to share a couple of videos because they were fascinating to me, and taught me a lot more about the situation with N Korea.
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Let's talk about North Korea, perspective, and two projections... (one month ago)

The top comment is interesting:

@wrathsong 1 month ago (edited)
As a person who lived in South Korea for 10 years in total spanning nearly 2 decades as an academic, please know that we have a history of the USA and other countries giving food to North Korea as a point of negotiation to get them to stop shooting practice missiles. Add to that, the country's most concerned about these exercises are Japan and the United States. [snip - more]

There was hope that N Korea would talk to China about food. They got an offer from Russia instead to send food in trade for weapons. No word on whether NK and Russia have gone through with the deal AFAIK.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/white-house-russia-korea-engaged-food-arms-deal-98240629
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Let's talk about Russia, North Korea, and missteps... (11 days ago)