As I noted yesterday, one of many matters that worry me when I put on my "geopolitical strategist" cap is that the passing of Kim will leave a power vacuum that the Kim family itself can not fill, and that there will be a grab for power by some of the officers in North Korea's military. A junta seeking to secure its power could well do desperate things, like (say for example) lob a nuclear missile in the direction of Seoul, or Tokyo, or (depending on how confident they are in their technology) Honolulu. By the way: that geopol strategists' cap? It is metaphorical, but if it were real it would probably look a lot like a traditional dunce's cap. I have no knowledge in these matters. But, on the specific questions that bother me, neither it seems does anyone else. Imagine this simple scenario. Junta fires missile in the direction of Hawaii. The missile, it transpires, is poorly made and falls harmlessly into the Pacific without detonating. Rather optimistic a n...
