{"id":258668,"date":"2022-10-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=258668"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:11:35","slug":"bring-us-nukes-back-to-south-korea-to-counter-kim-jong-un-s-deadly-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/bring-us-nukes-back-to-south-korea-to-counter-kim-jong-un-s-deadly-game","title":{"rendered":"Bring US nukes back to South Korea to counter Kim Jong Un&#8217;s deadly game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP This photo provided by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering a speech during a parliamentary meeting in Pyongyang on Sept. 8, 2022.It may be absurd to apply the Panglossian view &#8212; the unwavering optimism propounded by Professor Pangloss in Voltaire&#8217;s &#8220;Candide,&#8221; that &#8220;All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds&#8221; &#8212; to the real-world dystopia that is North Korea, which one defector has described as the closest thing to &#8220;hell on Earth.&#8221;But the credo of teleology in Pangloss &#8212; that events happen by design and are the ultimate and best manifestation of their intrinsic purpose (telos) &#8212; is key to assessing the North Korean dictatorship&#8217;s pathologies; namely, an unremitting commitment to expanding its nuclear power and abusing its population. In trying to assess why Kim Jong Un, like his predecessors, is so committed to these deadly crafts, observers must ask, &#8220;To what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be absurd to apply the Panglossian view &#8212; the unwavering optimism propounded by Professor Pangloss in Voltaire&#8217;s &#8220;Candide,&#8221; that &#8220;All is for the best in the best of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}