I can see this becoming the way the United States government works. If some version of this hasn’t already become the only real way Washington deals with any kind of crisis (political and economic):
8:55 pm on August 13, 2010Sŏn’gun, often spelled Songun, is North Korea‘s “Military First” policy, which prioritizes the Korean People’s Army in the affairs of state and allocates national resources to the army first. “Military First” has been playing many roles, including that of “Military First Politics,” serving as a political system, that of “a line of Military First Economic Construction” acting as an economic system, and of “Military First Ideology” making it the new guiding ideology of North Korea.
Songun elevates the Korean People’s Army within North Korea as an organization and as a state function, granting it the primary position in the North Korean government and society. It guides domestic policy and international interactions. It is the framework for the government, designating the military as the “supreme repository of power.” The North Korean government grants the Korean People’s Army the highest economic and resource-allocation priority, and positions it as the model for society to emulate. Songun is also the ideological concept behind a shift in policies since 1994 which emphasize the military over all other aspects of state and society.
