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Amid another anti-North Korean moves by Seoul, the administration of Lee Jae Myung decided to make use of the ‘drone case’ to smooth things over – and ran into a tough North Korean response.

Despite official statements from the authorities, who refer to the individuals involved in the case as secret supporters of the former president, in actuality it seems they decided to distance themselves from a group of freelance military intelligence operatives due to political expediency.

Power in the United States is no longer exercised primarily through coordination, law, or consent, but increasingly through assertion and spectacle. Recent domestic enforcement actions, rhetorical excesses, and executive overreach reveal a system experimenting with how much authority can be claimed without institutional resistance.