How worried am I supposed to be about what's happening between North and South Korea?

What do you think? Armageddon all over again, or the usual jostling and crap?

. . . What I am worried about is the inevitable transition of power to KJI's
son. I believe upon this event, and KJI's death, there will be potentially
multiple attempts at a coup. I think the destabilization and potential for it
leaking over the boarder will happen then if ever . . .

I follow the DPRK pretty close. Nothing new says I. Mostly the beating of chests. My alert level is pretty low.

What I am worried about is the inevitable transition of power to KJI's son. I believe upon this event, and KJI's death, there will be potentially multiple attempts at a coup. I think the destabilization and potential for it leaking over the boarder will happen then if ever.

Why isn't South Korea going to war with North Korea over that torpedoed ship? Because SK knows it would win, topple the government and be responsible for 24 million welfare cases

North Korean Motives

Most likely, Pyongyang’s attack on the Cheonan was retaliation for North Korea’s defeat in a November 2009 naval clash with South Korea. In that dispute, a North Korean ship was heavily damaged and its crew likely suffered casualties. The Cheonan attack and previous naval clashes took place near a disputed maritime boundary in the West Sea. During the past two years, North Korea has proclaimed that it would adhere to its own interpretation of the military demarcation line, escalated its claim to sovereignty of South Korean waters, increased naval artillery training and augmented ammunition reserves of coastal artillery units in the region, and abrogated the armistice ending the Korean War.

The Cheonan attack was also motivated by Pyongyang’s desire to increase tensions on the peninsula"a negotiating tactic favored by North Korea. Pyongyang has historically seen raising tensions as an effective means of securing negotiating leverage and forcing concessions from its opponents. North Korea typically alternates provocative actions with seemingly conciliatory behavior in order to gain the diplomatic initiative and dictate the negotiating agenda. Given that last year’s long-range missile and nuclear tests did not achieve North Korean objectives, Pyongyang may have felt obligated to up the ante through a high-risk provocative act, such as sinking the Cheonan.

By attacking the Cheonan, Kim Jong-il was likely hoping to force President Lee Myung-bak to soften his principled engagement policy toward North Korea as well as to prompt the U.N. to reduce the sanctions that have had a strong impact on North Korea’s economy.[5] Such a response would hardly be unprecedented; Pyongyang has often lashed out when it felt weak or was perceived as weak by opponents in what South Koreans refer to as the “barking of a wounded dog.”

Despite the audacity of attacking a South Korean ship, Kim Jong-il would have been confident that neither South Korea nor the U.S. would retaliate militarily. Both countries have suffered several North Korean attacks that led to loss of life, but neither has retaliated.[6] Nor was Pyongyang punished when it brazenly violated the U.S. redline against nuclear proliferation when it helped to build a covert nuclear reactor in Syria.

failures art wrote:

I follow the DPRK pretty close. Nothing new says I. Mostly the beating of chests. My alert level is pretty low.

What I am worried about is the inevitable transition of power to KJI's son. I believe upon this event, and KJI's death, there will be potentially multiple attempts at a coup. I think the destabilization and potential for it leaking over the boarder will happen then if ever.

We'd happily funnel billions in the rebel direction because that's about the only transition that doesn't necessarily involve Seoul becoming a "sea of fire." With millions already dead; I'll continue hoping he dies sooner, rather than later.

It will be sooner than later IMO. I just think that many higher ups in the DPRK military may try to move to power and in doing so, the game will become mustering support by posturing about who is the toughest against SK and the USA.