South Korea needs refresher on "Little Red Riding Hood"

SANCTIONS HAVING EFFECT ON NORTH KOREA

GOAL NOW TO IMPROVE IMAGE

With North Korea feeling the effects of world sanctions, it has changed strategy. Rather than threatening  South Korea, the United States and Japan with Nuclear destruction it has embarked on a campaign to normalize its image across the world. It started with a propaganda campaign embraced by CNN to view North Korea as just another country with a little different political system. 

It has now convinced the South Koreans to allow it to send some Olympic athletes to compete and march side by side with the South Koreans. It is an obvious attempt to allow the world to delude itself into believing what it always wants to believe. The North Korean leadership and political system is just different, but not a cause for concern by the rest of the world.

Make no mistake:

North Korea has no intentions of ever abandoning its nuclear  ambitions.

That when fully functioning and armed with intimidate and coerce its neighbors.

That its ultimate goal has not changed in 70 years. To unify the Korean Peninsula under the control of the political system of the North.

If successful, it would also threaten Japan and others in the region.

Possibly South Korea is just playing along to get through the Olympics in peace. North Korea was able to intimidate South Korea into giving it everything it wanted during the Olympic games. This in itself is a troubling sign. One has to wonder how the leadership in South Korea views the political system of the North. I would expect the vast majority of the citizens of South Korea embraces the freedom and prosperity of their present system. But there is no doubt, that as in every country there are those who believe communism is more equitable and a more just society. Hopefully the leadership of South Korea is not willing to give up their freedom and prosperity for the false hope of peace.