Nuclear threat from North Korea

[Anomalocaris]

The guy is a 30 year old playboy born into the utmost privilege and who really has the absolute power of life and death over septuagenarian generals and senior most beuracratic, to say nothing of every other lesser vermin, I meant human, in North Korea.   How much difference is Swiss private school going to make on the sanity of such an individual?

All the difference in the world, since all he's doing is aimed at survival. Unprovoked nuking of another country doesn't fall into that category.

Except isolating himself through threatening nukes does not get him out of the hole he is in, and the hole is getting deeper all the time.  He most likely had an opportunity to pursue a different course when he ascended to power in 2012.  He was insane enough to not recognize the ultimate hopelessness of his current course.

Every evidence suggest to me he is drunk with power and thinks his influence and prestige is enhanced by ostentatiously capricious, as oppose to skilled or farsighted, use of his power. He does things because he thinks he can now, not because he has thought through the implications of doing so in the long run.

If he could name his horse consul of Rome, he probably would, mainly because he thinks doing so show his power because no one else could, or would.