Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff expects North Korea to be perpetually provocative instead of cyclically provocative

According to the Los Angeles Times, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in Beijing explaining that we should expect there to be a constant threat of provocation by North Korea under Kim Jong-un.

If this is true, it raises the chance of there being an accidental miscalculation which leads to a wider shooting war. It also gives right-wing Japanese leadership more wind in their sails as they try to dismantle that country's pacifist constitution in favor of something that allows them to project their military might.

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