How Not To Get Invaded Even If You're A Tinpot Dictator Who Craves Power
By Kim Jong Ilcc: Damascus, Baghdad, Rangoon, Tripoli, Tehran, Tallahasee
1) Very important! Don't try to assasinate the former President or anyone who might be related to a future President, especially not anyone who fits into both categories. This is just asking for trouble.
2) Act nuts. I'm not talking Pinky and the Brain/Dr Evil style taking over the world nuts. I mean genuinely nuts. Dress and act strangely, always refer to yourself in the 3rd person and/or invent a 4th person tense if your language allows. The goal here is to have every major news outlet in the Western world question your sanity openly.
3) Invade your neighbors. Not for vital oil wells, nor for Leibensraum. Just invade them for the hell of it. Send troops over the border, kill a few villagers, then withdraw. When they ask why you did that, respond that you don't know what the hell they're talking about and that the villagers probably shot themselves.
4), A few days later, admit that you invaded, and promise not to do it again. A few days after that, retract the admission and start challenging people to duels.
5) Then invade again, except this time by sea. Again, withdraw, deny, admit, then deny again all within a week.
6) You guessed it! Invade again. The goal here is to both reinforce #2 and to get people to see these occasional border skirmishes as a regular part of your personality, not as something that can be deterred.
7) Build you nuclear plants right on the border with your neighbor friendliest to the West (which is also who you should've been invading all these years). It really helps if the prevailing winds would make bombing the plant mean contaminating your neighbor's largest city.
8) Declare that your nuclear plants are only for peaceful production of power.
9) Then declare that you're going to build nukes and no one can stop you. Get an astrologer to say that you're destined to be a world leader, and say that having nukes is your destiny.
10) Then deny having said that at all, blame your translator, and have him shot. If you've already shot all your translators and are having trouble finding new ones, kidnap a few foreign nationals to speed the training process.
11) Deny having denied making nukes.
12) Deny having kidnapped foreign nationals.
13) Deny having denied having denied making nukes.
14) Admit to having kidnapped foreign nationals, but say they're all dead and promise not to do it anymore.
15) Deny having denied having denied having denied building nukes, but promise not to do it anymore.
16) Admit that some of the foreign nationals are alive, but deny that they don't want to go home.
17) Start test-firing your newest rockets so that they travel directly over a nearby industrialized democracy before splashing down in the ocean.
18) Deny that the rockets have military uses.
19) Admit that, of course, the rockets have military uses. Shoot more translators.
20) Deny having denied having denied having denied having denied making nukes. If you have any translators left, shoot them.
The goal of all you actions should be to make people fear not only the short-term effects of a war to take you out, but to fear all the crazy shit you might do if they launch one. Acting like a rational leader will get you killed playing this game.
America and the West don't fear rational leaders of small countries; they can either be bought off or overthrown with few complications.
America and the West rightly fear crazy-ass motherfuckers with a long history of irrational behavior who apparently don't give a damn what people think of them, especially ones who might or might not have nukes and who've shot all the people who know for sure. If they fear you, they'll leave you alone.
They fear me, do they fear you?
