Tensions continue to be on the rise in the Korean Peninsula today, as China’s proposal for an “emergency meeting” designed to calm tension was met with scorn by US officials and an apparently accidental firing of artillery shells by South Korea threatened to spark another clash.
Both North and South Korea have been trading allegations and threats since last week’s brief artillery exchange, which led to the deaths of two South Korean Marines and two civilians. At a funeral for one of the marines today, South Korean military commander Major-General You Nak-jun promised to “take our revenge on North Korea” and insisted they would “carry out a hundred – or thousand-fold” retaliation against the nation.
Pro-war protests took place in South Korea’s capital of Seoul as the nation conducted war games in and around the disputed maritime border between the two nations. Marine veterans across South Korea burned photos of Kim Jong-Il and demanded more strikes against North Korea.
With North Korea promising retaliation of its own, the US looks poised to further escalate the tensions in the region with the addition of an aircraft carrier. The US retains some 28,000 troops along the border between the two nations and President Obama has promised to cooperate in whatever retaliation South Korean President Lee Myung-bak sees fit.
In a recent comment by the president of South Korea it seemed to me as if he was saying – "we will no longer wait for the North to respond to our provocations".
The South Koreans and the US fire Artillery, fly Fighter-Bombers, and deploy Warships near the DMZ or North Korean territory and the North Koreans are presented as the aggressors when they retaliate. Even a defensive measure such as deploying old Air Defense missiles within its(North Korean) border is presented as aggressive by the US and South Korea.
It seems obvious that the US and South Korea want war on the Korean peninsula, what is puzzling is what do they think they will gain from it(other than the deaths of many innocent people)?
They're like little boys playing games of cowboys and indians, aren't they? It's pathetic really that adults play childish games with real weapons like nukes.
One day the game will turn deadly. It only takes one misstep, one error of judgment, one accident and our world is no more.
Humans are dumb. After all, what other species threatens its own existence?
http://www.dangerouscreation.com.