"Tensions have escalated between the Korean nations following the North's shelling of a South-held island on Tuesday. North Korea warned Friday that joint military exercises this weekend between the U.S. and South Korean military could push the peninsula to the "brink of war."
What's the betting that this is to save that part of the world from economic collapse? The South is no longer the multi-trillion dollar industrialized machine it once was with limited raw materials and a heavy dependence upon foreign oil to keep its aging population afloat. Even their technological advantage has been taken over by China and what better way to keep your place in the world by engaging in a war? Even with all the rhetoric coming from the South that this is the genesis of "World War Three" nobody seems to be truly concerned. And what's really strange here is how the U.S. will come into this ready to put the smackdown on the North's defiant little bitch with little fanfare of criticism.
So Obama sends a carrier as a display of America's heavy-handed firepower but I wonder if this does start to escalate into a brutal display of artillery exchange will anyone in the current Administration know what to do if weapons of mass destruction are actually and factually found? Apart from a crazed vertically-challenged despot with a Elvis fetish the North possesses nothing in the way of economic interest for the West part from, maybe a better understanding of how to build prisons and spew pro-government propaganda fear mongering upon its populace.
Be interesting to see how these "military maneuvers" play out and who will blame whom for the "provocation" about to take place.