re: #36 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

the kims have obviously been developing these nukes as bargaining chips, and now lil’ kim wants to use them to bargain with

my question is, what does he want in return for giving them up?

has anybody been covering this aspect or am i just way behind the curve here?

I don’t think he’s planning to give them up at all. I think he wants to leverage them into creating legitimacy and a public relations coup against the US. To create a narrative where he’s seen as having tried to be reasonable but that America is antithetical to peace in Korea and the Asia Pacific region. To prove in a sense that he and his father were strategically correct to pursue this program, because “North Korea needs nuclear weapons to survive in the face of imperialist US aggression.”

At least that’s what 70 years of North Korean propaganda tell me he’s planning.