As the USA begins to 'square-up' to North Korea, one wonders when, if ever, the world will be free of conflict.
The Korean peninsula has been the home of conflict since the 1940s, a place where China could flex its muscles against the Americans. That said, the Korean War ended over 60 years ago even if no official peace treaty was ever signed and the bellicose utterings of the leaders of the northern side have continued to drift over the airways. However, today seems to be a little different.
Following in the footsteps of his mad father and grandfather, the latest North Korean dictator, a fat little man called Kim Jong Un, seems determined to make a name for himself. In response to what has to be seen as a certain amount of provocation form the South, he's now threatening potential nuclear war; the Americans have promptly announced that they'll be deploying certain 'defensive measures' in the western Pacific.
North Korea is not and can never be a threat to the USA. The ridiculous noises emanating from their leadership would be better ignored but, of course, the paranoid Yanks don't work like that. They take every supposed threat, however laughable, seriously and go into full militrary deployment mode. Surprisingly, the only voice of sanity in this situation comes from China.
Previous escalations in the tension between North and South Korea have eventually died down without any serious consequences but some experts believe this occasion may be a little different. With new leaderships in both North Korea and China allied to the usual over-reaction of the US, could we actually be headed towards real war ?
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