Thursday 28 January 2016

Moto Guzzi V11 Lemans Tenni

Home from Nightshift, stopped on the way and bought a bike rack to attach to the bullbar attachment, and also an attachment to attach to daughter's woman's bicycle so it can attach to the bike rack...and a tow-ball wrench/spanner thing so that I can attach the bike rack attachment to the bullbar... It's quite complex to be a bloke. We think and suffer deeply about this stuff. Still a couple of hours to be awake to go and pick up Dear One from work, come home, then get some sleep. A tall bottle of Guinness Extra Stout in the fridge as the usual 6 hour sedative. I was thinking about cars...I never really liked them much after about 1965...much more interested in motorbikes for decades. The current car, the 2015 Nissan D22 working blokes 4WD Navara dual cab ute is the most expensive car I've had in my life...just under $30,000 AU dollars...and that was on a very serious end of the marque 'run-out' sale...so about $15-20,000 less than an equivalent Hi-Tech Toyota Hi Lux or Ford Ranger dooded-up one...and the D22 included a bullbar, twin batteries, spotlights, towbar, roofracks, tonneau cover, etc. The D-22 model hasn't changed, I think, since 2003 by the look of it...a better engine now, but everything else is pretty old school...it has a real cigarette lighter, 4 ashtrays and a 6 disc CD player...odd, yes. The speakers are awful so brings it all back to reality. The thing is that I really do like it after about 6 months...I really do like everything about it...it doesn't go fast, the brakes aren't magnificent, it steers like a cow, the seats are pretty standard Nissan uncomfortable, it's noisy, it's basically a truck...but somehow it's an honest vehicle in some way. Genuine olde worlde Japanese technology made in Bangkok. It's got an efficient 2.5 common rail turbo diesel engine and blows black smoke on strong acceleration as they all do. It's only done about 5,000 kilometres. As I've mentioned before, I don't like things in cars ...warning, reversing, overtaking alarms that go 'beep'. Only the car horn should go beep...and the Nissan is very good in this way. I don't like tv entertainment 'screens' etc and the Nissan doesn't have any. What it does have is a massive air-conditioner which is just wonderful....ambient 45C temp to 16C in about 5 minutes. No Volvo or Honda can do that. Looking back, I haven't owned many cars, and no very expensive ones at all...and most very second hand...but as I get some free time I will post an 'apples & oranges comparison' of them....from the 1965 Austin Westminster A105 with the twin SU carbies and the Borg-Warner shift, the benign and silent Wolseley 24/80, an immensely fun Honda Acty Van, a couple of magnificent Daihatsus, a tediously boring Subaru Impreza R, a high flying Volvo SSRI sports coupe, a very good Mazda Boss big-tray ute, a VW 1500 Beetle, a Holden Kingswood Station Wagon, & one of the first Honda Civics. As things stand, I'm really happy with the current Nissan Navara Dual Cab Ute...basically because it's so simple and honest, it works, and spare parts are dirt cheap...because the line has been in production for so long up til last year without changes...and the airconditioner, as mentioned, is like something from heaven....and the whole 2015 thing almost at a 2003 price. The only cars left that I'd like to actually own, but don't need to and won't are: 1: a 1990 Subaru Brumby Ag-Quip Ute with bullbar and winch... 2: ...hmmm, nothing else. As for motorcycles I'd like to have, but won't ever get, and don't expect to...there's only 2...a 2003 Moto Guzzi Le Mans Bon-homme VII in silver, green, brown and red...I forget the special name but I'll post a youtube video of one starting up...what a treat of sound...Ah yes! The Moto Guzzi Le Mans Tenni...magnificent... and one of the new BMW street bikes...an R Nine T...they look good. Both are twin cylinders, the BM donk is horizontal, the Guzzi's engine is at that odd Italian Lake Como 45 degree angle. To ever have to choose between the two...I'd go for the old Guzzi. They're related too, both designs had their inception during the time when Hitler and Mussolini dreamed together of a United Europe...A European Union...what a strange dream of bizarre madmen that was...


Tuesday 26 January 2016

MH370...let's play 'connect the dots'...the plane carrying over 300 passengers, mostly Chinese, is flying from KL to China over the South China Sea where US Navy has been and is still conducting laser-EMP 'pinging' of China's sea, land and air radar defences...to neutralise them... Then the plane gets hit by this and crashes there in the sea. The US Navy cleans up the site.. The facts get delayed and rewritten and the Malaysian PM announces the plane actually turned around for no reason and went over Penang...and then disappeared... Then, it didn't actually do that, but, um, yes, it didn't actually do that but went almost half way round the world and crashed in the only place it couldn't be found... Then Obama arrives in Malaysia and they sign up to a new secret military alliance. Then the Saudi Royal family give the Malaysian PM $890 million as a gift without telling anyone. Now, are the Saudi's very good allies of the USA? Yes. Could the USA have given the Malaysian PM the money? Not directly. It was only the Chinese Secret Service that got the whiff of this pointing to the Malaysian PM as the 'office' where all the info went to...and then an odd story eventually came out of...


world news...PM of Malaysia, who was given US$890 million by the Saudi Royal family, for nothing, at the time the MH370 went a-missing, said he will be returning about US$650 million to the Saudi Royal family, since the gift was discovered by the media...the difference between the $890 million and the $650 million is the amount he has already spent.

The Attorney General of Malaysia finds the PM has no case to answer.

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Sunday 24 January 2016

Today's anecdote: 2 Korean brothers, age 10 and 14 came by for their Mandarin lesson and Madam introduced them to her willowy daughter,and they spoke in Mandarin for awhile. During this brief period, the students' eyes glassed over and they began to drool. Up to today they were great students, from now on, excellent students ...having good inspiration to learn this difficult language as well and as fast as possible.


a philosophical quote on parenthood by John Fitzpatrick, 2016: "We move through stages, as parents, at the same speed our children move through their remarkable eclectic developments. At first we are their managers, then later we become their consultants, then we become distant advisers, then we become a buoyant memory...and it is our acceptance of these stages that makes us good parents". The world, as far as I know it, and have known it, has been a good place and remains so...apart from a few Liberal Governments, and apart from Bill Shorten.


I must congratulate, mockingly, the local Murdoch paper The Cairns Post for defying convention and allowing the alcohol industry to write their articles and editorials showing us all in Cairns the virtues of grog. Of course, Cairns has no problem with alcohol, the clubs have no violence, the health benefits of binge drinking are...really good! Well done, The Cairns Post...not too many newspapers have fully crossed the Rubicon between considered reason and social madness so clearly and undaunted. Cheers!


House of Floating Peace. I was thinking about writing and inspiration. Back in 1999 I owned a house in Smithfield and set up half of the 2 car garage as a writing room. It had an airconditioner, a window, a narrow bed, a desk, some shelving racks, and there I wrote, over 18 months a small book and had it published by the first publisher I offered it to. I was very fortunate to have that time to write a book, full time, and only due to a small inheritance that someone wiser would have invested...and I was very fortunate to land the manuscript at a publisher who took it up. These were both one-off events in my life. The original inspiration for the book came simply from a cable-car ride on top of the rainforests where, looking down, I imagined creatures moving about under the cover of the great trees. Thus the characters of the Casskins evolved. The continuing inspiration came from looking out the writing room window at a concrete wall, about one metre away, facing North. The changing shades of daylight gave me some sense of time passing; but not the regulation that a clock would bring. Here in 2016 we are living in a nice apartment close to town and a portion of the lounge room is occupied by the writing desk, with a view of a thick curtain, facing North. Water sounds from a fountain next to the desk. There are ferns outside on the balcony, and our bicycles. In between 2008 and 2014 I lived away in Thailand, some time in China, and we managed to collect some very old plain wood furniture and screens and all these remarkable little items which are all on display around the place. It is not a house where one can feel lonely, even when alone...there is so much stuff...much like a Thai-Chinese furniture emporium in a way, all crowded in. I like what the Thais do in their small houses...they crowd them out with things. This is a habit we both picked up there. Even the Christmas lights are still up and on at night because they are pretty things.Very Thai indeed. We have a picture of the King of Thailand, abatik of the buddha, and a very large and heavy statue of a Christian Angel on the balcony...just next to the small Thai 'Spirit House' that keeps the troublesome green spirits at bay. On the walls of the balcony are 2 small feng-shuai mirrors which redirect all evil intent back at the neighbours. I used to love Japanese minimalism and unclutteredness ...and we could do that in a house that took up about 5 acres inside...and I still 'imagine' my 'imaginary' writing room this way...spare, functional, cool, bright...but now I feel it would also be very lonely...I re-created my 'imaginary writing room' in the story the Green Gate Ghost Story which I'm still working on. When daughter arrived from China we had to move and remove and store lots of the usual knick-knacks just so that she could fit in...and we did so. At the moment I'm looking for a few items which disappeared in that time. I know they are here somewhere, but I have no idea where. Perhaps I should visit the 'imaginary writing room' to see if any of them turned up there. As it is, our apartment meets all of the criteria for what I could call a House of Floating Peace, or a Snake's Nest...as both my wife and I are snakes in Chinese astrology. Daughter is a horse, so obviously needs more space. She will be studying in Townsville at Uni rather than here in Cairns so, when that happens, perhaps some of the lost treasures, relics and icons of the past times will resurface. No hope in hell of finding them now.


Saturday 23 January 2016

It was the US Surgeon General who suggested and started up regulation of vitamins and food supplements due to the problems caused by them. The outcry from the New Age Health Companies was very nasty and vicious...the Government wants to take control of your essential vitamins and supplements... So the Surgeon General walked away from his scientific position and just let companies do what they like and state what they like...thus the present world wide market. These early years of the 21st Century are best noted as the time when human reason, governance responsibility, and scientific analysis, gave way to market forces and corporate power as being the social 'truth'. For those interested, the US Surgeon General noted that Vitamin D could be sometimes useful for health if one was living in Arctic regions, and Vitamin B was close to the placebo effect regarding support for massive mis-use of alcohol, but the rest of the vitamins and minerals and supplements were best avoided as they were not real human food and they could cause significant health problems. But who wants to know that? We live in a new Dark Ages.


As you may know, The Family has been busily investigating the export of a few substances to China...Manuka Honey, a range of Blackmores and Swisse health supplements, etc basically because of the price of these items in China....i.e....ridiculous... and it's all ridiculous, to me anyway...especially as none of them actually work. But, that's not the point at all. We are talking about Lifestyle Health, not functional Nutritional Science. After all, what would real scientists know about anything? the best way for China to get supplies is to quickly buy up the Blackmores and Swisse companies and brands/labels.... and produce the same worthless high priced nicely packaged rubbish in China itself....then they will export it to us. Add a touch of ginseng and goji berries, and Bob's your uncle. Massive profits...no responsibility.


Tuesday 19 January 2016

All up, The Review of The Revenant: Well worth watching once.


The Revenant reminded me of another film also...Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt, Mr Bear, and the American Indian emotive lingo/gibberish. Now, that was a great and complex film. The more I think of the Revenant, the more I feel it drew its meaning, and a lot more, from other films: 1: Castaway...the lone survivor battlign against all odds. 2: Legends of the Fall....wrestling with Bears with mystical American Indian evocations. 3: Kurosawa's epic Derzu Usala...the timeless immense beauty of the REAL Far North...whether it be Russia or Canada...and the results of experience. But The Revenant is still a good film. I think in the way that Castaway is a good film...it's beautiful, brutal and is designed to get someone an Oscar to increase the number of people who will watch it.... but like Castaway, Jesus, I could only watch that once...same with The Revenant. Wondrous films like Legends of the Fall and Derzu Usala...these don't have an expiry date...they are art in film. You come back to them and enjoy the wonder of them.


a much better film than the Revenant, although the Revenant is grand.

I found it! Akira Kurosawa's breathtakingly brilliant film, 1975: Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала, Japanese: デルス·ウザーラ; alternate U.S. title: Dersu Uzala: The Hunter) is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first non-Japanese-language film and his first and only 70mm film. The film won the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival[1] and the 1976 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.[2] The film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala (which took his name by the native trapper) by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century.
The film is almost entirely shot outdoors in the Russian Far East wilderness. The film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of strength and ability that comes with old age.

REVIEW: The Revenant: Leonardo de Caprio et al

A nice day at work...one of those pleasant existential days where things just cruised along...not really having to be ready for anything etc...somewhat different to the film The Revenant last night. 

But you learn things from films...like, if a bear rips your throat out, to fix up the gaping tracheotomy, all you have to do is apply a sprinkle of gunpowder to the separated integumentary surfaces on your throat, and light it. 
I'll remember that neat trick. Perfect cauterisation.
Brilliant filming, so brilliant that within 20 hours you've put the gross brutality of it aside, and there's just that stunning photography of wondrous places. or maybe we have grown so accustomed to brutality that we don't register it any more.Whatever...
But still, you take care out there in the frozen forest or at work....you never know...

Sure, it owes a lot to Castawa, but probably more to Kurosawa's film about a hunter in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century...but still, the Revenant is a good film.

Maybe we have become so 'evolved' that we can only appreciate the beauty of nature with the intercedence of gross brutality...
But in this way, in comparison, Kurosawa's film, without brutality; well, Kurosawa's real genius shows through. If I recall the name of that film, I will post it.

Things to be careful of at work after watching The Revenant:


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Sunday 17 January 2016

On China

I recall talking to my father-in-law in China (who was locked up in a political prison for 10 years in China, by Mao, personally, for commenting that Mao's vision of socialism was inept and not communist enough because he failed to include trade unionism in his plan).
I told my father in-law that I had been a member of the Australian Communist Party. He laughed. He said "Gosh, I bet the two of you had such fascinating weekly meetings regarding over throwing the ruling elite and their running dogs...hahahaha."
The Han-Manchurians are very bright, astute and sarcastic in their humour.

Family Pics







Nice Bike


Those Cool Han Bureaucrats of China Govt

In the fascinating world of Chinese politics, the resounding win yesterday by the anti-China party in Taiwan has caused headaches for the USA.
Whilst the USA supports the Independence movement in Taiwan, it doesn't wish for Taiwan to become independent, per se.
If Taiwan actually has a totally independent democratic government, and formally states total independence, it may well, under Chinese mainland economic pressure, eventually seek the removal of American military forces from Taiwan as time goes by, especially as the economy is failing.
So, whilst the USA maintains a One China policy...whilst supporting Taiwan...a free and democratic anti-China regime in Taiwan destabilises US geo-political plans. It is best for the USA that Taiwan remains as it is...an informality and political wedge.

To complicate things a tad, China has announced that all Chinese people who have left the mainland since the Revolution and taken on foreign citizenships failed to fill in a small form renouncing Chinese citizenship, so all those people who left, China now identifies as Chinese citizens....free to enjoy the benefits of citizenship and the responsibilities. Re-entry to the mainland may thus require a Chinese passport as the other passports former folk now have can be seen as illegal...US, Canadian, European etc until people apply on the small form to renounce Chinese citizenship. China does not recognise dual-citizenships.

As there are far more people, of Chinese extraction, and others, seeking entry into China to settle and do business, than seeking to leave it, this will be a way for the China Government to identify 'real citizens' and question 'potential terrorists' who wish to do business in China.

Sunday 3 January 2016

Noting our friends, our close military allies, Saudi Arabia, fighting ISIS side-by-side with us, executed, by beheading, 47 people, then sewed their heads back on, and put them on crucifixes for public display. I'm so glad we are spending $2,000 million a year in Australian tax money on militarily supporting the advanced compassionate moderate side in the war on the despicable, evil Terror of ISIS in the Middle East...?....Well done, dear Sharia Saudi brothers in arms, fighting for civilisation...well done Australia...again. Onwards! (I do not use emoticons, so I need to advise that there is some irony in my comments).


News from Asia; CHINA Military A significant increase in cyber/technology in military format and restructuring of the PLA 'rocket force' to provide strategic support from space for China's army navy and air force. Health Disability Support Programs have been introduced across China this January to assist disabled folk and carers, including lowering taxes a lot, + supportive payments for health care and home care. The Introduction of base preventative community health and medical care has begun based upon the successful Cuban model. There's been an easing on restrictions in terms of status for migrant workers enabling access to usual city social and education services. The already noted 2 child policy. An expansion of government pension systems and health care to include retired non-government workers. Environment New City Construction (20x 10-15 mil people) based upon sustainable energy methodologies including solar /wind as legal requirements pre-development. All new highways include construction of tandem fast rail with equal capacity to car-people volume. Communication Expansion of control of internet. SINGAPORE: Development of a drone that can carry a person up to 70kg, that can be controlled by the person or remotely controlled by air traffic control in 'streaming' enabling multiple pod lineal aerial jaunts from suburbs to the city and return. THAILAND: Significant increase in arrests and 'attitude realignment' programs in tune with military government.


Saturday 2 January 2016

N. Korea forging ahead with excavation of new nuclear test tunnel: 38 North

N. Korea forging ahead with excavation of new nuclear test tunnel: 38 North

2015/12/31 01:27
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is forging ahead with excavation of a new tunnel at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a U.S. research institute said Wednesday.
New high-resolution commercial satellite imagery shows a canopy set up at the entrance of the new tunnel to shield against falling debris as well as mining cart tracks used to transport spoil from excavation, 38 North said in a report.
"The presence of the mining cart tracks shows that excavation is continuing with no indication of when it will be completed," it said.
38 North also reported new activity at the North Portal at a test tunnel under excavation since May 2013, but said it is unclear whether the activity is associated with maintenance or some other purpose.
North Korea has so far conducted three nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009 and 2013, all at the Punggye-ri site.
In the run-up to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North's ruling Workers' Party on Oct. 10, fears had grown that the country could conduct its fourth nuclear test or a long-range rocket launch, but no such provocations took place.
In October, South Korea's main intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Service, reported to lawmakers that the North is preparing for its fourth nuclear test, although a test is not imminent.

How North Korea became Kim Il Sung’s Korea

How North Korea became Kim Il Sung’s Korea
By Fyodor Tertitskiy

On August 8, 1945, when the Soviet Union attacked Imperial Japan, Kim Il Sung was still a nobody. He, a mere captain of the Red Army hardly dreamed about leading a country. But 1945 was a truly momentous year for East Asia, when things changed so rapidly as they never had before. Japan was already crippled by the Americans, and the atomic bombardments, plus the fact that the USSR had joined the war, forced Tokyo to accept the inevitable.

On August 15, Emperor Showa announced the surrender of the Empire, and for two more weeks the Soviet troops were busy accepting surrender of the Japanese military units stationed in the northern part of Korea. However, very soon, in August or September 1945 the USSR decided that a socialist state would be built in North Korea and this state was supposed to be completely controlled by the Soviet Union.

The person who was de facto in charge of North Korea was Colonel General Terentiy Fomich Shtykov. He was a born in Belorussia and, being a protégé of the Politburo member Andrei Zhdanov, rose to become a political officer of the First Far Eastern Front of the Red Army, achieving the rank of colonel general – the highest a political officer could gain. It was Shtykov who was overseeing the creation of the North Korean state.

Kim’s New Year’s address indicates bumpy road for inter-Korean ties

Kim’s New Year’s address indicates bumpy road for inter-Korean ties
Kim’s New Year’s address indicates bumpy road for inter-Korean ties
Leader's latest address displays new-found independence from the legacy of his father, grandfather
January 1st, 2016
Since 2013, for the last three years Kim Jong Un has used his New Year’s address to speak of North Korea’s prospects and its policy conceptions. Obviously, as North Korea’s governmental system is different from other parts of the world, their annual address does not always correspond to what they said in the early days of the year. Often, Kim’s oration ends up as nothing but rhetoric.
But researchers can’t skip analysis of Kim’s words, as the message comes from the one and onlySuryong, the Supreme Leader, giving important clues as to which direction North Korea will head in this year.
‘KIM JONG UN-STYLE RHETORIC’
One thing that is significantly different about Kim Jong Un’s 2016 address is that the nuance of the speech has a subtle distinction compared to that of previous ones.
North Korea’s New Year’s address hasn’t been the same each time, and every year the leader has provided a different speech guiding the country in a different direction. For this year’s address, Kim Jong Un has used his own style of political rhetoric that no longer seems bound to his predecessors.
Since 2012, the year when Kim Jong Un started ruling North Korea, mentions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il have been fixed contents of Kim Jong Un’s speeches.
The former leaders’ names were mentioned only four times throughout the whole address
But since 2015’s address, the mentions of the former leaders have declined in frequency and their names replaced by other terms, such as Suryong or “General.”
The same thing happened in 2016’s address, as both former leaders’ names were not directly mentioned, but were only briefly spoken of as a parts of sentences such as “Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il military tactical strategies” or “the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class.” The former leaders’ names were mentioned only four times throughout the whole address.
This change shows that Kim Jong Un’s base of legitimacy is still laying in his “Paekdu bloodline,” coming from his predecessors, but he will no longer depend only on his predecessors, and start to stand as the one and only perfect figure, the Suryong of North Korea.
LESS ‘MILITARY-FIRST’
The North Korean leadership’s effort to break free from the “military-first policy” had already begun at the end of Kim Jong Il’s era. But the real effort to break free took place under Kim Jong Un’s rule.
The word Songun, or “military-first” policy, was only mentioned twice in this year’s address. We can say that this is Kim Jong Un’s intent, to decrease the excessive political influence of high-ranking officers of the North’s Korean People’s Army. In some ways, the word Songun should no longer be read as the supreme status of military officials in North Korean society, but just the political word that unites today’s North Korean society.
ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE
Economic coverage in this year’s address was generally similar to that of last year.
One thing that stands out is that Kim Jong Un urged the people to produce “more high-quality products that are competitive in the global market.” This quote shows an important difference from 2015’s address, during which Kim Jong Un ordered the country’s factories and companies to be less dependent on importing goods, but to fight to localize raw materials, building materials and equipment.
Of course, there is a chance that this might be more typical North Korean rhetoric. But overall, in the 2016 address, Kim Jong Un’s confidence in managing the nation’s independent economic structure could be clearly read. 
FOREIGN, SOUTHERN RELATIONS
Readers must observe closely that Kim Jong Un emphasized “building strength by one’s self” during his address.
One can argue that it was just a general statement that Kim made, but looking back at recent China-North Korea relations, this can be read as an indirect message from Pyongyang to Beijing.
The recent cancellation of the Moranbong Band’s concert, which was to be held in Beijing, shows the present state of relations between the two. Both need each other for the future, but neither will be able to fully trust the other.
Kim’s oration this year also showed revulsion and regret toward the U.S.
Kim Jong Un has blamed U.S as the root of the rising tension in the Korean Peninsula and the East Asian region.
“The U.S has adamantly turned away from our effort to lessen the tension in Korean Peninsula, by changing current ceasefire agreement in to peace treaty, as we have suggested numerous times,” said Kim Jong Un during this year’s address.
The inter-Korean relations of 2016 look bumpy based on Kim’s speech
“The U.S. has been depending on anti-North Korea policy to raise tensions between two, and the U.S.’s followers have been clinging on their efforts to claim the violation of human rights in our country.”
This can be read as the North’s slandering of U.S. policy, but at the same time, it suggests that North Korea’s thirst to establish a direct communication window with the U.S. is very desperate.
While Kim’s address in 2015 included the possibility of summit talks between two countries, this year Kim only mentioned the need for South Korea to change its attitude toward North Korea and how the chances of a conversation can alter according to South’s intent to change.
This message cannot be read as anything close to North Korea’s intent to actively continue talks with the South. The inter-Korean relations of 2016 look bumpy based on Kim’s speech.
WHAT CHOICE TO MAKE?
The three main directions of North Korean policies could be hinted at in this year’s address. First, in domestic policy, Kim Jong Un will try to get away from the halo effect of his predecessors and build up his own “Kim Jong Un-style of governing” to make his policies appeal to North Koreans.
To call for a massive shift between generations of North Koreans, Kim Jong Un seems likely to get aggressive in his “love for the people policy” targeting the youth.
In inter-Korean policy, Kim Jong Un would leave the window of communication opened, but will most likely not show any sign of yielding in negotiations, and such actions are expected to induce anxiousness in South Korean policymakers.
Translated by JH Ahn from Cha’s blog and Facebook account.
Featured image: KCNA