North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that enraged Kim Jong-un. South Korea’s spy agency the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Monday the five victims were from the state security department. They are said to have produced false reports which angered the country’s leader which resulted in them being murdered with the hugely powerful weapons.
This is not eliminating a threat, or creating fear among the masses. I view this as amygdala. He is growing increasingly intolerant of subtle irritations, and so he is looking for ever more aggressive (and amygdala-distracting) ways to vent that irritation, and get rid of it. In short his amygdala is, like an addict, requiring ever more violent actions to obtain relief. I would suspect this will progress to torturing at some point, and it will require ever less to set it off.
I also see the murder of his brother as a symptom of this phenomenon, in a couple of ways. The need to kill the brother would appear to be because of a perception of an increasing threat to his control of the nation due to external actors. That could be the amygdala stressor. He also unleashed VX in a public area, on foreign soil, using foreign female civilians to deliver it who would likely have been exposed and maybe even killed. That was a slap in China’s face, risked untold civilian lives, and could possibly have set off a war had the wrong people been killed and the wrong Asian nation felt it had lost face.
My guess is he is under some high stress-load which we do not see, that is doing this to his amygdala, perhaps due to China or some other player trying to infiltrate his government – something which he either rightly or wrongly sees as a deep, amygdala-jacking threat to his life and his leadership position.
High amygdala-stress is difficult for many to cope with. Even the hardest individual will be tweaked by it in the initial experience of it. One symptom will be a warped perception of the utility of immediate action, which produces an increased drive and urgency to act. In short you will want to do something immediately, rather than take time to assess and gather information. Over the longer term, I think you either have the ability to learn to deprioritize everything that is jacking you, and you will maintain a steady emotional state, or you do not, in which case you will deteriorate.
You see this weakness manifested in spree killers, who often begin with one kill, experience the amygdala stress, and then rapidly begin to kill people they would otherwise have let live, and they do it faster and faster as amygdala stress piles on amygdala stress, usually until the stress reaches a point they suicide. From what I am seeing, I suspect Jong-Un does not have what it takes to withstand the load, and he still has farther to spiral down.
It would not surprise me if part of the problem is the mixture of an r-predisposition and early r-training, mixed with the extreme stresses he is encountering with the threat, all cast against a backdrop of extreme luxury, limitless wealth, constant sex, pleasure, and maybe even drugs. It is one thing to enter a foxhole, and live the sinecure life of a soldier day by day as you wage war. Your brain can acclimate to constant stress and deprivation in that environment. It is another to ricochet back and forth from one extreme r-world, to extraordinary amygdala-stress, and back to the r-world.
As he deteriorates, I would expect that his ever more erratic behavior will increase the chances that China will decide to stage a coup and take him out, if they have not already begun to, just to reduce a major source of potential instability. With NK’s history of sending special forces over the border to execute missions in South Korea, and now their projection of actual WMDs into other nations to kill people under Chinese protection, Jong-Un growing even more unstable could become quite a problem if not addressed sooner rather than later. And he appears to be growing less stable.
I will be surprised if he is still around by the time Trump leaves office.
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[…] Is North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Spiraling Into Insanity? […]
All you have to do is look at him. Kim Jong-Un. Look at a recent picture of him. He’s the fat, out of shape, never works out, avoids pain, avoids suffering, man-child stereotype writ large. You can literally see that food is his psychological crutch, his security blanket. He’s weak. He’s beta, and that helps explain the over-reaction amygdala triggering (never secure in himself or in his physical safety, does not invest in himself, always under some level of threat, this guy never gets a chance to drop his cortisol levels).
High stress would make sense if SK intel is correct in that Kim ordered his own brother’s assassination. Our little Kim might be trying to grow up and play in the big leagues. Somebody get him some Haagen Daz!
North Korea assembles about 6 nuclear warheads each year and has about 5000 tons of chemical weapons. Trump wasn’t kidding when he said Japan and South Korea probably need nukes.
The ChiComs have stopped coal imports from NKorea; wrecking their economy. I guess that should cause some stress.
NKorea is still world champion in making USD bills though. Theirs are better than the ones printed in USA. Centuries-old mastery of the printing press. That should suffice. Plus, the old Japanese nuke factory in Conan.
Kim Jong-nam’s son, Kim Han-sol, is also not too fond of his uncle. I think he’s still alive in Europe or something, if I were him I would keep a low profile in the middle of Mongolia or something.
From a religious perspective I was taught a while ago that are reasons to think Armageddon wil begin with Korea. I never really understood how that mechanism could work, especially in light of Trump and Putin. Now I see it.
This man is probably not going to be successfully deposed. His population are too fanatical to even be counted on to take that lightly. So as we have it, I see the following scenarios
1. No attempt on him is made, either internally or externally, he spirals further and further out of control until he finally gets his psychologically broken followers to launch the nukes, kicking off WWIII
2. An attempt to replace him is made and fails, now he really goes for the button
3. An attempt is made and succeeds, some or many of his followers go insane at the death of their god, and launch the nukes.
Conclusion: Yep, Korea is where it starts, and this world, baring Divine Mercy, is going to fry. Well, there will be an exchange, it might be limited, but we can expect government and system collapse. Chances are our boy is unstable enough so that he will launch before our beloved elites can get enough warning to save their own asses, which will be grimly amusing.
So, time to train, pray and get the soul right with God. Good luck fellow souls! Worst comes to worst, we’ll all laugh about this in the next world. 🙂
I imagine the pudgy son of a bitch is under pressure and it must be epic. A militarily capable, rich neighbor to the south, a militarily bulking up neighbor across the sea, both who share an ally with a well established history of warmongering and occupation. And this is before we factor in the sustained famine where the north is left to export the men to serve as low cost virtual slave labor abroad.
Come to think of it, I’d love to know if they’re still talking about the Ryongchon disaster in Pyongyang that happened during his fathers run or gossiping about what happened to their leaders wife.