North vs South, Vietnam and Korea

Kim Il Sung contemplated it, probed a little, took over the Pueblo, but
basically was doing the old Communist opportunist trip. A high point was
in 1969 with testing the new administration (Nixon's), which PRC did
in 2001, USSR did in 1961-2, etc. But they were getting massive
subsidies from USSR by that time and living better economically in the
North than the South, if that can be believed. Or was in 1960.

Why provoke the situation when the south was going to fall naturally
into the North's lap? USSR thought the same of America, in short
they believed their own propaganda and one sided view into the
situation, so became complacent. Complacency was a good ally
of our policy of containment.
 
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