Among the many mistakes which South Korean propaganda aimed at North Korean audiences tends to make is its standard anti-missile message.

The logic of this message is well known: launching missiles, South Korea claims, places an unreasonably large burden on the DPRK’s national budget, and in a needy country, this sum could be spent in a far more rational way.

This line of reasoning may sound logical to Western or South Korean audiences, but it hopelessly misses the point. An attempt to dissuade North Koreans from launching missiles because of the deficit of the state budget has as much chance of success