North Korea’s dynastic ruler, Kim Jong Un, who turned 29 (or possibly 30) on Jan. This could be the Hermit Kingdom’s year of living provocatively. Pyongyang's announcements that it might postpone the test due to technical difficulties in the days leading up to the launch appear to have caught Obama's Asia team off guard. 12, seven days before South Korea's presidential election. and South Korean governments: The rocket was theoretically capable of reaching the United States, and North Korea carried out the test on Dec. North Korea's rocket launch in December was calculated to intimidate the U.S. New administrations in Washington, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, and Moscow will seek to avoid foreign crises as they consolidate their power domestically, creating a less confrontational and more appeasement- prone neighborhood in 2013. 8, is very likely to act aggressively toward his neighbors in 2013 to burnish his leadership credentials at home and to deal with the new South Korean president-elect, Park Geun Hye, from a position of strength. North Korea's dynastic ruler, Kim Jong Un, who turned 29 (or possibly 30) on Jan. This could be the Hermit Kingdom's year of living provocatively. and South Korean aid have bought little more than attacks, provocations, threats, and broken promises to disarm. McCain tweeted that Richardson and Schmidt were 'useful idiots.' Richardson is among the staunchest advocates of appeasing North Korea after billions of dollars in U.S. Security Council Resolutions, was not helpful. A State Department spokeswoman said last week that the timing, coming just four weeks after a rocket launch that violated three U.N. John McCain clearly agree on one thing: Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt should not have visited Pyongyang this week.

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