Ok totally amateur musings about North Korea I think a pivot to the international system makes a lot of sense for Kim, and to the extent this happens it's probably a loss for Chinese regional hegemony And so maybe this is good for American global power, if you're into that
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1. North Korea has nukes and they're probably safe from international military intervention at this point. 2. Major threat to Kim regime is likely internal instability. Opening up _economically_ might mitigate this, without the family having to sacrifice too much control.
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3. Obvious comparison: China! CPC liberalized markets (kind of, partly, etc), became rich; this seems to have cemented the regime rather than weakening it, at least medium-term. Country much less susceptible to idiosyncratic economic (+other?) shocks now, I bet
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I would absolutely be interested in more-informed takes, thanks ^^
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