According to the defence ministry of South Korea, North Korea fired 500 shells in a live fire exercise in Pyongyang. About 100 of them landed over the South Korea maritime border. South Korea responded by firing 300 shells from K9 self-propelled howitzer batteries. The US scolds North Korea for their action and the Pentagon frowns upon Pyongyang's dangerous behavior. Analysts say that this action was a sign of North Korea's building irritation with the US for resisting multi-party talks about it's nuclear programme. Yang Moo-Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, says, "I don't see that this ran any real risk of escalating into a serious clash." The North gave a no-sail no-fly warning, which is very out-of-character of them. During the drill, people on border islands were evacuated to shelters, just in case. Yun Byung-Se, South Korean Foreign Minister, warned North Korea that they would pay a "severe cost" if they did another test in opposition to UN sanctions.
This makes me a bit nervous. Tension sounds like it has been building up in this area, and this incident isn't helping. Unless someone takes over North Korea or Kim Jong-un's son is nothing like his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, this fighting might cease. There's an extremely slim chance that either of those incidents will take place. I didn't know that the tension was this bad. They seem to me like little kids throwing stuff at each other. It's sort of a "You kick me, I'll kick you" situation. Some day one of them is going to get "kicked" very hard, and war will break. Russia will probably get in on it too. In fact, I bet the US will get in on it. But predictions aside, this does not seem like a good sign.
Oh dear! This is so not good. I agree with you, it seems like little kids arguing and fighting. One of them will eventually get some friends to help them, and next thing you know, there's a huge war! Not good AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteI agree - any war is a disaster, but a nuclear one is even more terrifying - it's what could actually blow up and absolutely destroy the earth! I don't think we've seen the last of these Korean conflicts, and probably sometime in the future there will be a fight to decide who has the main control of the area, and we may be approaching that point quickly.
ReplyDeleteIts just a time bomb waiting to happen. They just need to be put in the timeout box, maybe cut off trade perhaps?
ReplyDeleteIt'd be best if a nuclear war, or any war for that matter, didn't happen. But with tensions building, it's kind of nerve wracking waiting for something big to happen.
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