It has been reported everywhere, so via Stratfor.com,
North Korea has declared it is no longer bound by the Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War now that South Korea has joined the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
The Armistice has been what has been keeping them from walking across the de-militarized zone (oh, that and the land mines that we’ve planted and can’t get a waiver to the land mind treaty for). So now, they have lost the last scrap of cover that ‘we’re just trying to get along’.
The North Koreans aren’t interested in getting along with anyone. I think this is what a lot of people do not understand. There are countries out there, North Korea, Iran, Saddam’s Iraq, certain countries in Africa, that just don’t care if the rest of the world ever accepts them. Now one of them has nuclear weapons and says ‘we are in a state of war with you.’
Which one do you think we are going to have problems with first? Iran or North Korea? I think within 5 years, there will be some major carnage in one of the two regions.
Left by Richard on May 28th, 2009