{"id":14478,"date":"2016-05-08T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14478"},"modified":"2016-05-08T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:22:51","slug":"note-to-kim-jong-un-study-up-on-mad-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14478","title":{"rendered":"Note to Kim Jong Un: Study up on ‘MAD’ doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have used this blog on occasion to question North Korea’s fruitcake\/dictator’s sanity on judgment, but not — necessarily — his intelligence.<\/p>\n

Still, someone in Pyongyang needs to take the young man aside and explain the MAD doctrine to him.<\/p>\n

The letters “MAD”\u00a0comprise an acronym, meaning “mutually assured destruction.”<\/p>\n

The United States and the Soviet Union understood its implications.<\/p>\n

If one country were to launch a nuclear strike against the other — or its allies — then all hell would break loose. Both sides would be destroyed. Gone! Obliterated.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Kim Jong Un says he won’t use nukes unless his country’s sovereignty is threatened.<\/p>\n

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Even that caveat makes any thought using nukes, well, rather MAD … don’t you think?<\/p>\n

It’s important to note that he is the lone leader of a nuclear state that keeps referencing the potential use of nukes. Does the People’s Republic of China say anything about it? How about the United States? Or Russia?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait! I almost forgot! Presumed GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has said he wouldn’t oppose Japan or South Korea developing nuclear arsenals as a hedge against North Korea.<\/p>\n

That, too, is MAD.<\/p>\n

It’s simply in Kim Jong Un’s best interest — really and truly — to consider the implications of what MAD means.<\/p>\n

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I have used this blog on occasion to question North Korea’s fruitcake\/dictator’s sanity on judgment, but not — necessarily — his intelligence. Still, someone in Pyongyang needs to take the young man aside and explain the MAD doctrine to him. The letters “MAD”\u00a0comprise an acronym, meaning “mutually assured destruction.” The United States and the Soviet … Continue reading Note to Kim Jong Un: Study up on ‘MAD’ doctrine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2681,3335,3355,3694],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-prc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14480,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}