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If the Kim family suddenly decided to take the money and run to Dubai (or where-ever crypto scammers retire to), I wonder if anything in North Korea would even change.

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Riding a tiger is dangerous, climbing down is even more so.

If he took all the money and ran? Yeah, there would be a nuclear power vacuum and a massive migration crisis towards the south that requires the US, China and Russia to be cooperative on to deal with. It would be the most hilarious way to start WW3.

Well there was the time someone wanted to stop for a sandwich...

What is this reference?

It's considered how World War 1 started. ;)

I got the details muddled, I thought Franz Ferdinand stopped for a sandwich, but it was the person who shot him kicking off a chain of events that started the first World War who stopped for a sandwich, and on his way out spotted Franz Ferdinand and literally too his shot.

https://medium.com/weird-history/a-sandwich-sparked-a-war-th...

Ah yes, the killer was planning his kill for some time and when he decided to do it, Franz Ferdinand changed his usual path. The killer was disappointed, went to get something to eat and met him by chance (well, for him at least) while he was eating.

After asking my question I was wondering of you were not referring to the attempt to flee the country by Louis XVI (who was stopped at Varennes because he was recognized after chatting around instead of sitting still in the cart)

Dubai is indeed where crypto scammers retire to.

They actually have an escape plan, with a base in Switzerland. Look it up, it's not even a secret.

EDIT: OK, turns it it's not that easy to find. I saw it in a documentary from a pretty serious source [1]. Unfortunately for you, it's in French (there should be a German version too).

[1] https://youtu.be/LdH7WYVYF8s

Do you have a timestamp? Searching through the transcript doesn't produce any hits for "Suisse" at all.

Found it! I linked the wrong video. The correct one is https://youtu.be/1CsRF3XLRLg, and you can find the info around the 14th minute.

that's a really interesting question! My only $0.02 is that there isn't a coherent political apparatus to transition political power - as I imagine that the power dynamics among the secondary rank is adversarial.

In short: the power vacuum would result in a bloodbath.

Unless the international community jumps on it in a multilateral fashion(a la Balkans)

Might as well ask for a magical unicorn to swoop in and save the day. The international community doesn't want to touch North Korea with a 10 meter pole. There is a definite sense of whomever tries to intervene will inherit responsibility for the largest ongoing humanitarian crisis in modern history.

If you swoop in there and size power how are you going to lift the people out of poverty and not create the largest refugee crisis in history?

I would bet you're probably right. You are touching on the heart of the fact that regime transition is really a intl. Relations problem.

There may be an awkward power vacuum as always with dictators setting up deliberately unclear lines of secession but chances are someone else with the most claim to 'legitimacy' would grab power. Just like how the royal bloodline dying out alone didn't mean there were no more kings.

What's the merit of doing this?

crypto? Emperor Rocket Boy, has everything needed to go full ICBM NUKE, on a thumb drive, the crypto thing is just a side hobby, that shares time on whatever small mountain of GPU's that are used for all the rocket and submarine, nuke engineering that is going on in NK, which is his main hobby.

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