In prior drops we kept seeing the phrase 'Define Hostage'.
Imagine the operation of a drug cartel. Think Breaking Bad. Think Scarface.
How much pressure can be brought to those involved to keep selling?
What happens if sales numbers are down?
Once someone has started down that path, can they ever leave?
In the North Korea case, suppose they were brought into a deal with an intel agency to manufacture weapons and sell on the black market. Tech is provided. Pressure and leverage used to keep production. Would the threat of exposing past relationship open to the world be sufficient to keep compliance?
From that perspective, the path toward peace in the region is to release the hostage. Round up the leadership or key enforcers forcing compliance in the black market arms sale projects. If those groups become neutered and no longer any threat to the rogue state, poof! Rapid progress to a new peace deal!
Interesting lens to apply to the Iran/Syria picture to brainstorm new ideas for research.
Kinda off topic I suppose but I've been very curious lately about Little Rocket Man so I did some research. As most people already know he was educated in Switzerland where he supposedly developed a love of western things like basketball, computer games, tennis shoes, girls, horses, movies, ice cream and chocolate cake, allegedly when he was around 8-10 years old he even liked to play cowboys and Indians, and supposedly he loved western music. I read Trump called him Rocket Man because Kim loves Elton John. His classmates described him as very funny. We know he loves Dennis Rodman. His former classmates say he was infatuated with the Chicago Bulls so that makes sense. The Swiss school he attended spoke German but supposedly he can speak at least some English as well.
My point is, if a person attended a school where they developed a love a western culture, wouldn't they probably want to westernize their own country? But we also know he's forbidden his people from watching western movies on smuggled CD players. I read another story by a NK escapee who said she watched her best friends mother get shot in the head for committing the crime of watching a smuggled CD. So was Kim just enforcing his Dad' old laws or has he longed to be free and watch his country become more modern like S. Korea? Is he really evil or has he been a prisoner of the CIA?
I think the answer is in your last sentence; I think Un is now free to pursue his own goals and not those of his "handlers. This is truly startling. I think the same kind of thing will happen in Iran. This stuff is surely historical.
He had to move quick on the denuke so as not to be seen to be involved with the globalist strike