The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Wednesday 16 September 2015

KIM JONG-UN TELLS WORLD HE IS STILL THERE, AND IN STYLE..

North Korea warns U.S. it's ready to use nuclear weapons 'any time' - CNN

North Korea Says It Has Restarted Its Main Nuclear-Bomb Plant - The Wall Street Journal

North Korea's Nuclear Gambit - The Wall Street Journal

North Korea's renewed nuclear threat keeps experts guessing - The Guardian

North Korea says main nuclear complex operational; warns U.S. - Reuters

North Korea to restart nuclear reactor - AFP (on The Australian)

Does North Korea have nuclear capabilities? - BBC News

North Korea Confirms Restarting of Nuclear Center - Voice of America

US warns North Korea against restarting nuclear facilities - AFP (on Asia Times)

North Korea admits nuclear reactors restarted, tells US it is "fully ready" - The Sydney Morning Herald

How to stop worrying and embrace a nuclear North Korea - The Guardian

North Korea Says Principal Nuclear Complicated Operational; Warns US - Times

US urges North Korea to avoid 'irresponsible provocations' over nuclear program - AFP (on The Economic Times)

These headlines once again confirm the ferocity of 'the baby-face, tenderly chubby, Dennis Rodman loving ‘hermit’, who also orders entire families to be killed, entire communities to be starved to death.'

These headlines from the global news outfits once again reaffirm steely might of Kim Jong-un, the young though oversized ruler of the 'hermit kingdom', North Korea.

Kim Jong-Un tells the world he is still there, and in style.

For past few months, in fact for more than a year, Kim had remained subdued - out of public's eyes - but he was consolidating his position. Those North Korea watchers know it. After all, a visionary like Kim Jong-Un, though plump sized, covers even the finer details of his empire's various symbolisms. In this case, probably, he was trying to live the 'hermetic' spirit of his 'hermit kingdom'.

In his carefree ways, he was not bothered at all, in fact, he basked in the glory of the global media burning its midnight oil over analytic reports on his 'disappearance' from public life. There were reports on a possible coup, reports on his sister taking over, reports on Kim being dragged down by some serious health problem, reports of powerful North Korean generals successfully hatching a plot against him.

Loads were written on each of them - thousands of words literally flew - from one part of the world to the other - and Kim enjoyed each of them - with his 'maintained' silence. After all, his 'professional' mind believes that any publicity is worth 'going for' - no matter what it takes.

And what could be better than this that the global media powerhouses, which are seen as the gold standard for any communication material, day in and day out discuss him - for any reason - even after his 'mysterious' public disappearance for some days.

We may call it propaganda but Kim Jong-Un (and even his predecessors, the two other 'Kims' of the Kim nation) has a well-oiled communication system.

South Korea is a regular element  in its routine packages. And whenever Kim feels to go global, like he did during the 'Sony Hack' saga or when he decided to execute his uncle Jang Song Thaek by machine gun firing squad after his 'wisdom' told him that his uncle was in fact a 'despicable human scum, worse than a dog'.

Or like this renewed nuclear threat!

This is one of the 'tried and tested' North Korean publicity (one is free to read it as propaganda) tool to pull global attention and the Third Kim is getting mastery over it - incident after incident we have seen so.

So, even if the world had intelligence input for two years that North Korea was restarting its Yongbyon nuclear facility, when Kim finally said so, and openly, it made for global headlines. Obviously, he doesn't speak his mind directly. There is a well laid and expansive system for it - the Korean Central News Agency. And Kim has followed his predecessors in ensuring that the 'mighty provocative line of words' is followed without fail - even if it means firing KCNA staff and anchors by missile death squads to discipline them.

The latest round, as well, goes to the 'shrewd ways' of Kim Jong-Un. Since this 'artfully packed message' came out, North Korea, Kim Jong-Un and North Korea's nuclear capability are all around in news analyses and reports.

And what validates it is a response by North Korea's arch-enemy, the United States of America. Kim had again made Barack Obama's America to react to North Korean 'designs' in less than a year.

After all, running an empire is not an easy task, especially when it is by a single family that is there for 70 years. And the Third Kim is efficiently taking that 'legacy' forward, in style - though, the world may debate its 'substance'. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/