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Based on his analysis of the successive stages of regime maneuvers and regime, China’s foremost DPRK expert Zhang Liangui judged today that the probability of the outbreak of war on the peninsula is between “70 to 80%.” With the historic Songun “task” being the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, Prof. Liangui writes that Kim Il-sung “founded the task” and Kim Jong-il built a military strong enough to accomplish it.
"We accused the North Koreans of amping things up, now we are worried we did the same thing," one Defense Department official said.