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...indeed incapacitated, dying or already dead, what might that that mean for the Korean Peninsula, for 60 years now one of the most heavily militarized neighborhoods on the planet? Korea watchers insist his demise is unlikely to mean the collapse of the North Korean regime, at least in the short run. Regime change is something the North's border mates most emphatically do not want to see. As the analysts at Control Risks Group in London put it, Pyongyang's "brutal authoritarianism may be repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone...
Every major intelligence agency across the world does the exercise. Call it the "hit by a bus" scenario. If leader X of important/sensitive/unstable country Y drops dead tomorrow, what happens? Who takes over? How might that change things? For some countries, the exercise is simple. For others, it's murky and complicated. Then there's North Korea...
Every major intelligence agency across the world does the exercise. Call it the "hit by the bus" scenario. If leader X of important/sensitive/unstable country Y drops dead tomorrow, what happens? Who takes over? How might that change things? For some countries, the exercise is simple. For others, it's murky and complicated. Then there's North Korea...
...indeed incapacitated, dying or already dead, what might that that mean for Korean Peninsula, for 60 years now one of the most heavily militarized neighborhoods on the planet? Analysts and government sources insist his demise is unlikely to mean the collapse of the North Korean regime, at least in the short run - something which the North's two closest neighbors most emphatically do not want to see. As the analysts at the Control Risks Group say, "the regime's brutal authoritarianism may be repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone." Neither China...
...Coming on the heels of two other American incursions - a commando raid on a suspected militant hideout on Sept. 3 left 20 people dead, and a Sept. 4 missile strike killed four more - the Haqqani strike roiled Pakistani public opinion. At his inaugural press conference, Zardari was pitched indignant queries about whether he would end U.S. raids on Pakistani soil. Each time, he punted, pointing out instead that Pakistan has a problem with terrorism but that "we can look the problem in the eye, and we can solve it." Punting may have been his only option: continued U.S. operations...