North Korea wins again

         North Korea wins the game of chickens once again.

For the last two months, South Korea and the United States stood eyeball to eyeball with North Korea while Pyongyang threatened to nuke the South as well as some American cities. In the end, though, Seoul and Washington obviously blinked and are now begging Pyongyang to come out for another round of talks with them to resolve their problem peacefully.

The outcome of the talks, as they had done so many times in the past, will compel the United States and South Korea to provide the North with food, fertilizers, oil and the like for a few months of “peace and quiet.”

On the surface, the United States and its allies would agree to extend their economic aid to the North only on condition that it will give up its nuclear ambition. But we all know that North Korea will throw any international agreement like a pair of old shoes into a waste basket whenever it wants to.

That is not all. The gangsters in the North will shake the world with a new series of nuclear threats again after the economic aid from its "enemies" stops coming. Its young dictator and his lackeys will stage the worldwide circus again. Thus, the farcical North Korean show will go on and on ad infinitum.

In the meantime, American scholars and journalists as well as government officials will continue their current arguments on whether North Korea has or has not succeeded in miniaturizing its nuclear warheads and developing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear bombs “to reduce the cities in the U.S. and South Korea to piles of ashes,” as North Koreans are fond to say these days.

While the Americans are arguing endlessly and fruitlessly, North Koreans would be able to arm themselves with viable nuclear weapons and missiles sooner or later. Then they would not only use the bombs for themselves without any hesitation but also sell them to any country or group of crazy people that are willing to pay.