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First of all, let’s be clear that North Korea is not threatening to nuke Guam. What the regime has said it is doing is preparing a plan (which it now claims will be ready within days) to launch a series of Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missiles over Japanese territory and into the sea 30 to 40 kilometers off the coast of Guam (just outside its territorial waters but well within its exclusive economic zone). Such a launch would not do any damage to U.S. citizens or military assets, but would demonstrate that the island is within range of the Hwasong-12, which Pyongyang claims is capable of delivering a nuclear payload. That might well cause panic among the U.S. public — a psychological warfare win for North Korea.

For any country that wanted to cripple American conventional and nuclear power in the Pacific theater, Guam would be a prime target. But surely Kim knows that an actual attack on Guam, nuclear or otherwise, would be met with an overwhelming U.S. response that would surely mean the end of his reign and his life (along with those of perhaps hundreds of thousands of other North and South Koreans).

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/what-does-north-korea-hope-to-gain-by-threatening-guam.html

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He's probably really upset that he is starting to lose his power and his people are turning on him so he's trying to trick them into thinking the outside world is bad and that he can protect them so they should continue to support him. It's honestly the only reason I can think of other that he is dumb? 

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1 minute ago, moonsago said:

He's probably really upset that he is starting to lose his power and his people are turning on him so he's trying to trick them into thinking the outside world is bad and that he can protect them so they should continue to support him. It's honestly the only reason I can think of other that he is dumb? 

I wouldn't be surprised if Kim is self conscious about not being a "great leader " like his father and grandfather. He is supposedly 35 (we have no confirmed birth date) and is an authoritative ruler something that other senior executives would like to be. 

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2 minutes ago, Alolan Raichu said:

I wouldn't be surprised if Kim is self conscious about not being a "great leader " like his father and grandfather. He is supposedly 35 (we have no confirmed birth date) and is an authoritative ruler something that other senior executives would like to be. 

So he likes to be scary just to mask the fact that he is a bad ruler? But doesn't that only create problems that he might not be able to get out of later cause he is a bad ruler? Lol 

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Just now, moonsago said:

So he likes to be scary just to mask the fact that he is a bad ruler? But doesn't that only create problems that he might not be able to get out of later cause he is a bad ruler? Lol 

If anything Kim Jong Un is fvcked politically, not to mention his health is also in worse shaped.  

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5 minutes ago, Alolan Raichu said:

If anything Kim Jong Un is fvcked politically, not to mention his health is also in worse shaped.  

His health? What do we know about that?

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Just now, Economy said:

His health? What do we know about that?

He is a heavy smoker spending a lot on cigarettes and cigars. He also has poor eating habits especially for weighting 300 pounds at the height of 5' 7".  He also has a bad case of insominia

http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/20/kim-jong-un-spends-29million-on-tobacco-while-his-country-starves-5954920/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/kim-jong-un-weight-insomnia-spy-agency-north-korea

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2 minutes ago, Economy said:

His health? What do we know about that?

He had/has (idk the actual circumstanced) to use crutches because of his obesity f.e. cuz all the weight damaged his leg. If it's that bad already, it wouldnt be surprising if he has Diabetes

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8 minutes ago, BadMonster said:

his only goal is to make Trump look like a fool and so far he's succeeding 

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