Today I will focus on foreign policy…….this should be a bone of contention in 2014…….we have the exit from Afghanistan……the Middle East……the Iranian deal in the making…..and whatever little fires pop up that we need to respond to with whatever force is indicated…….but the one that is not on the radar, at least for now, is North Korea.

By now most of the world knows about the leader or Lil Kim–part 3 ,as I have dubbed him, and his purge that is going on….he has arrested then executed his uncle for being a negative influence…….all that makes him a dangerous person especially to his inner circle…..ala Stalin in the 20’s and 30’s…….but the last statement that Sec of State Kerry made has me a bit disturbed…….

(Newser) – John Kerry looks at Kim Jong Un’s execution of his uncle and sees shades of another infamous dictator using bloody ruthlessness to secure his grip on power: Saddam Hussein. “You saw the pictures of his uncle being arrested in front of everybody at this meeting,” Kerry said in an interview today on ABC, as per Politico. “I mean it really reminded me of a video that we saw of Saddam Hussein doing the same thing, having people plucked out of an audience and people sitting there sweating and nobody daring to move.”

And that underscores how “spontaneous” and “erratic” the young ruler is, says Kerry. “To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong Un just becomes even more unacceptable.” Further, Kerry says the “significant number of executions” in the last months “tells us a significant amount about the instability, internally, of the regime.” Meanwhile, it looks like Kim’s aunt is safe for now.

This may not seem like a big thing….but the implication that Kim is in the same league as Saddam is worrisome.  We are talking about a leader of a country that has “proven” nuke capabilities….is Kerry slowly making a case for some sort of action against the regime of Kim?

This is story that needs watching….it would really be easy to mobilize while all mouths are turned to Iran…….rhetoric is just that….. rhetoric…….like I stated…..worrisome!