June 4 the Reason for North Korean Nuclear Test

I must confess that I was surprised to hear that the Stalinist regime in North Korea had conducted a nuclear test, especially when it occurred to me where we are on the calendar (the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is next week). Until yesterday, I had always assumed it was the Iranian mullahcracy who would conduct a test at this time. I can only assume that the mullahs just weren’t ready yet. Whatever reasons the Stalinists had for conducting the test can and will be analyzed and debated around the world and throughout the world wide web. However, we must not forget to examine why the Chinese Communist Party allowed it to happen—and make no mistake; this sort of thing does not happen unless it was run by the CCP. For the answer to this question, we must go back to the calendar. The twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre is the one anniversary that scares the cadres more than any other—not because it alone could threaten the regime, but because it could aid or even set in motion a chain of events that could lead to the regime’s downfall in the future. This is why I assumed that the Iranian mullahcracy—the CCP’s strongest ally in the Middle East—would gladly take attention away from Beijing with a nuclear test. Read more.