Unpredictable, warmongering, chauvinistic US President Donald Trump may have found his match in equally unstable North Korean (NK) leader Kim Jong-Un who is ready to retaliate with nuclear weapons if attacked, making South Korea sitting target. Is humanity so cheap to these leaders who prefer war than talk?
Kim Jong-Un’s threat to land few missiles in the sea surrounding US Pacific island of Guam, a hub of US military might in the region; has met with equal verbal threat from President Trump. With all its brave or rather foolish threats from NK, it is well-known fact that an all-out war between these two nations could have only one outcome, the annihilation of NK.
Although NK could not realistically strike back at US, it could create havoc in South Korea. Even Capital city of Seoul is only a stone throw away from buffer-zone, well within range of well-dug NK artilleries, manned by well trained, fanatical defence force of well over a million and equal number in reserves, supplemented by sixty nuclear bombs, this tiny nation could deliver a punch well above its size. Such war could be catastrophe for SK, wealthy nation with highest living standard.
There may be some justification in North Korea’s reasoning that without nuclear weapons, his country may meet the same fate as that of Iraq, Libya, Serbia and Afghanistan while no one could dare to attack nuclear armed Pakistan, provocateur excellent on international stage.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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