Kim Jong Un is inching closer to all-out war than ever before.
on both sides of the North-South line between the two Koreas, coming close to the real thing but stopping short of killing their enemies.
With each shot it seemed as though war was edging closer, especially after two North Korean shots made waves south of what’s called the Northern Limit Line below which North Korean ships are banned. Kim Jong Un has been talking of late about “tactical nukes” capable of hitting small targets like a bridge or an airfield, but North Korea does far better with plain old artillery shells, about 100 of which North Korean gunners fired off its east coast into what both sides had agreed would be a “buffer zone” between the them.
For the U.S. and South Korea, though, defiance was the operative word, all in accordance with President Yoon policy of getting tough with the North after five years of failed efforts at appeasement by his liberal predecessor. The war games, first the U.S. and South Korean aerial show of force and then the North Korean response, abruptly diverted attention from a week-long period of mourning in South Korea for the 156 people, 101 women, 55 men, mostly kids in their 20’s, also a few teens and one middle-schooler, who died in the Halloween crush in Seoul’s booming Itaewon district, the playground of GI’s before the U.S. and United Nations Command moved to Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, four years ago.
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