Rodman-Styled Diplomacy Game Being Played With North Korea
Comments:  | Leave A Comment       There is this saying that
“just because you are paranoid does not mean that people are not
out to get you.” This saying is very important in understanding
the dynamics of the North Korean’s relationship with the United
States.      Nothing in this commentary is to serve as an
apology for North Korea.  Rather, it is critical that we have a
better understanding of dynamics in the North Korean regime in
order to avoid a major military clash.      The Korean peninsula
was divided in the aftermath of World War II when Soviet troops,
coming from the north, moved against the Japanese occupiers and
U.S. troops moved up from the South.  At the 38th Parallel, the
peninsula was divided.  Between 1945 and 1950, rather than the
peninsula being unified, two separate regimes were established
in the occupation zones (in the North it came to be known as the
“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;” in the South, the
“Republic of