New developments with North Korea

Where do I even begin? Well, like I’ve been posting on Facebook and Twitter, it’s kind of becoming a massive worry on my end that Kim Jong Un (the new North Korean leader) will actually do something stupid. So far, North Korea’s threatened to invoke its right to wage pre-emptive nuclear war with America (its sworn enemy), and to bring down South Korea (its direct prosporous neighbor and sworn enemy on the other side of the DMZ – the Demilitarized Zone).

Engaging in this type of reckless behavior is not only counterintuitive, but it’s also exceedingly suicidal. At this point, I’m beginning to think that Kim Jong Un has a massive death wish, especially in trying to start a war with the world’s 2nd largest nuclear arsenal, especially in atomic warfare. If there’s one thing America wants to seriously avoid, as stated by President Barack Obama, and both Foreign Secretary John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, it’s a nuclear war, and all have made warnings to North Korea to not even go that route, as it will only bring unnecessary suffering to its people.

It should be said that this situation is more dangerous than the one in the Mideast, there at least things are much quieter. So far Iran isn’t making many provocative statements, at least for the time being, and Israel isn’t saber-rattling to the extent it was last year.