Why Gadhafi's downfall scares the life out of Kim Jong Un

To be honest I doubt that Kim Jong Un is sane enough to consider how our enemy-turned-ally after 9-11-2001 Muammar Qaddafi was thrown under the bus by the former POTUS Obama administration during the bizarre 'Arab Spring' which quickly devolved into the 'Arab Winter' LTC (Join to see)
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The little idiot does grasp one fact, Nuclear weapons are a great deterrent to "Regime Change"

Here's my analysis. First off there is absolutely no evidence that Kim Jong Un is insane. He is a well educated and brutal dictator with a "Sword of Damocles" over his head and a whole lot to lose.

For 50 years NK has been running a giant protection racket scheme on the West i.e. give us money or we will burn down your house and businesses. Every few years the current NK dictator escalates the rhetoric in an effort to gain more concessions from the West. Experience has shown them that the West will ALWAYS stand down first. However, this time, there are a few new wrinkles. First and foremost is the fact that President Trump is an outsider to American Politics. He literally doesn't play by "the unwritten rules" that have prevailed since the UN Armistice in 1953. Rather than conceding to NK and quietly passing over the cash, he has met Kim's rhetoric with his own rhetoric. Second, South Korean politics has become very erratic. They now have a Liberal government that is breaking away from their traditional US subservient role and have started cosying up to North Korea's only ally China. Then finally you have the addition of Nuclear Weapons attached to ICBMS to the table. Now don't think it was an accident that information on miniaturization of nukes was "leaked" to the press last week.

The question is NOT who will stand down first, Kim Jong Un or President Trump? At this point Kim Jon Un has to be asking himself "has he pushed things too far?" Even if he calms down on the "Death to America" rhetoric, it may not be enough. President Trump and the West may act pre-emptively. The real question is can the US take out Kim Jong and his ICBM and Nuclear capabilities in one fell swoop? I'm guessing the answer to that is a big yes! The follow up question then is "can the West live with and contain the obvious retaliations from the north?" Which I would guess is a Yes as well. When you do the math it looks something like this 1) Act and the North may kill thousands of South Koreans in response, but ultimately the peninsula will be united and millions of North Koreans will be saved from living under a brutal dictatorship. Or 2) Don't act and live with a Dictator who sells weapons to terrorists around the world and someday may be responsible for a Nuke going off in New York City and killing millions. We live in interesting times!