North Korea’s interest in confederation is in first disarming and then eliminating the rival state. - Brian Reynolds Myers

It all comes down to what neither the softliners nor the hardliners want to acknowledge: this is a successful right-wing state, not a failed communist one.

Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene.

The US-ROK alliance’s position on North Korea has been inexorably softening, with only minor and temporary reversals, for over half a century now, while North Korea, arming steadily, has always held fast to its commitment to “final victory,” to unification under its own flag. One need only take a few steps back from the daily news to see where this is headed.