North's ability to target Seoul with artillery, delivering a devastating blow before any counter-strike can occur, is alarming, but the ideas of the cadre of generals surrounding North Korea's leader are clearly delusional, according to a UAE newspaper."In recent weeks, Pyongyang seems more bellicose than at any time since the cessation of fighting between North and South in 1953." But the ideas of the cadre of generals, who surround North's Kim Jong-un and seem to be holding sway and determined that they can win and gain from any conflict between Pyongyang and the rest of world, are clearly delusional, according to the Dubai-based Gulf News.Citing the worrying signs that this time, North Korea is actually going to act and not merely speak of launching an offensive against its perceived capitalist enemies, the English language paper said whether those enemies are the US and its military bases around the Pacific itself, South Korea, or Japan - or on any combination of the same, remains to be seen.But the reality, according to the English language paper, is that the North's military apparatus, while large and consuming an estimated 10 per cent of its gross national product, is technologically inferior, lacks an officer corps willing to make localised battlefield decisions and lacks training because of severe fuel shortages. It is also squaring off against a modern enemy in the South with superior weaponry and technology and backed by the muscle of US forces.The paper stressed on the need now for cooler heads to prevail as the United Nations is calling for talks to try and defuse tensions that have spiked since the introduction of tough sanctions against Pyongyang. "That needs to happen soon - and the sooner the better before someone makes a bad decision in a split moment
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