ANALYSIS: We're always told Kim Jong Un is unpredictable, but that couldn't be more wrong
In the west, the Kim family has been a source of mockery, but this family is too easily underestimated. Writer and Korea watcher Gavin Jacobson says,"No regime survives for 70 years — isolated and in dire financial straits — without a hardened backbone of logic supporting it".
By 2005 it announced it had"produced nuclear weapons". The bomb has given North Korea a seat at the table; it is what separates North Korea from other rogue states. Kim has always known this, it is a lesson he learned from his father Kim Jong-il who learned it from his father before him, the eternal President, Kim Il-sung.American Korea watcher Victor Cha has recounted a conversation with a North Korean envoy during nuclear negotiations a decade ago.
When Kim Jong-un took power he set his sights on finishing his father's work. First would come the muscle then the money. It was a two-pronged strategy to win respect, recognition and survival.
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