This article was also in the Telegraph - headline is "North Korea claims US could provoke nuclear war"
According to North Korean lore, Kim Jong-il's birth was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a glorious double rainbow and the appearance of a new star. His official biography says he was born on White-Headed Mountain, the highest peak on the Korean peninsula. On top of the mountain sits the volcanic Heaven Lake
However, a set of grey and prosaic Soviet Union records say Kim was born in 1941 in the remote Siberian fishing village of Vyatskoye, where his father was commanding a scraggly army battalion made up of Chinese and Korean exiles
The rhetoric and drama created by North Korea right now is manufactured by the North Korean government to convince the people of North Korea they're about to be attacked or invaded. They'll be very grateful to their dear leader when they are not attacked, or, when they learn Kim Jong Il's intelligence and power have repelled the (alledged) invading armies in a remote region of North Korea. It becomes another example of why the Kim Jong Il family is destined to rule - which means whoever is named by Kim Jong Il to succeed him will be accepted. That's my version of the scenario they want to convey.
The reality, I think, is that the North Korean government is like a tweaked out meth addict waving a loaded gun in a crowded room. Maybe they're trying to get one small thing accomplished for their own benefit, but they could accidentally kill us all in the process.
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