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Saturday, October 7, 2017

CIA's bosses seems to agree with me at least on something - North Korea's Kim 'very rational': CIA

Agree with me on this here(this news was released on my news site first and this already over one month ago) http://ausertimes.blogspot.si/2017/09/to-us-regarded-by-rothschildsuk-royals.html


WASHINGTON: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a rational politician and the US needs to understand that to deal with the nuclear-armed country, a top Central Intelligence Agency Korea expert said on Wednesday (Oct 4).

"Beyond the bluster, Kim Jong Un is a rational actor," said Yong Suk Lee, the deputy assistant director of the CIA's Korea Mission Center.

"We have a tendency in this country to underestimate his conservatism."

"He wants to rule for a long time and die in his own bed," Lee said at a conference on the CIA at George Washington University.

US politicians including President Donald Trump have repeatedly painted Pyongyang's strongman as irrational and "crazy."

But Lee said Kim's focus is to stay in power, as shown by the brutal murder in Malaysia in February of his half-brother Kim Jong Nam, which has been blamed on Pyongyang agents.

"All politics is local," he said of the North Korean milieu.

The country's long history of being surrounded by greater powers, too, means that the country is constantly on the defensive, and its leaders play that up.

"North Korea ia a political organism that thrives on confrontation," Lee said.

But Kim's fierce defense of his position and his combativeness against Washington does not mean he will act irrationally now that he has the capacity to fire a nuclear tipped missile at the United States.

"Waking up and deciding to nuke Los Angeles is not in his interest to survive," he said. 

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