Op-ed: A prelude to war...and it's NOT in the Middle East

Op-ed:

A prelude to war...and it's NOT in the Middle East

By: Diane Sori

While we here in America are focused on the social issue of gay marriage and all things Middle East, North Korea...who claims that US B-52 bombers once again made flights over South Korea in preparation for war...is now under "No. 1 combat readiness"...with long-range rockets being positioned to target the US mainland, US military bases in Guam and Hawaii, and South Korea.

So much for Dennis Rodman's 'touchy feely' moments with Kim Jong Un of just a few weeks ago.

Saying, “...to protect the nations sovereignty and highest dignity,” The Korean People’s Army Supreme Command put its troops on high alert and put its 'strategic' rocket units on a war footing, just hours after South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned the North Korean leadership that failure to abandon its nuclear weapons program would result in its collapse. That in turn led The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (a state body in charge of propaganda and inter-Korean affairs) to accuse Park of slander and provocation.

And so the tit for tat, back and forth between the Korea's began. But remember, all is NOT well between the two Korea's as the North and South are still technically at war as their 1950-53 so-called 'civil conflict' ended NOT with a binding treaty but with a fragile armistice, which the North says it has now thrown on the scrap heap. And in their delusions of above all else 'saving face' with the world, Kim Jong Un could take Parks words as a direct threat.

Claiming they're ready for full-fledged combat if provoked, Kim Jong Un remains angered by the new U(selss) N(ations) sanctions placed on his country after they were warned NOT to test a third nuclear warhead, which they did in early February after successfully launching a three-stage rocket last December, something that was NOT expected. And with those new sanctions in place, Kim Jong Un did what bloviating dictators do best...he saber rattled...threatening to turn Seoul into a 'sea of fire' and to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States.

And all this strong rhetoric comes on the heels of the joint military exercise recently completed by US and South Korea forces. Suddenly the issue of gay marriage seems NOT so important in the light of threats made against our country. North Korea is in desperate straits economically and has a man-child madman as its leader...a very dangerous combination that with the slightest provocation by either side could trigger off an unwanted armed conflict between the North and the South that would drag the US into it the fray, as the US and South Korean militaries signed a new pact last week that provided for a joint military response to even low-level provocation by the North.

Thankfully, while US and South Korean military officials continue monitoring activity inside the North, at least to date North Korea has NOT been able to actually accomplish any major military action, because they lack the gasoline and electric power to do so. But now with North Korea's ties to Iran, and the aid Iran sends them, a very dangerous situation could indeed unfold because you have two madmen at the helm of two countries on the verge of having deliverable nuclear warheads...and don't be fooled by Barack HUSSEIN Obama's words that Iran and North Korea are still years away from a deliverable weapon, because either through stupidity or deliberateness, Obama underestimates the advancement and sophistication of both countries nuclear weapon and missile programs.

And add into this explosive mix that recently North Korea shut down Red Cross hotlines with South Korea and stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the US military that supervises the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). But its decision to cut off the last direct military hotline with South Korea was taken the most seriously in Seoul because the two Korea's have used those telephone lines to control daily cross-border traffic of workers and cargo travelling to the North Korean border town of Kaesong.

And so the clock ticks down to a full-fledged war between the two Korea's. And with Pentagon spokesman George Little saying that US forces were ready to respond to “any contingency” and with Japan (home to a number of major US bases) saying its government was also “on full alert” the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more troublesome than ever..but hey, lets keep the focus on the social issues like Obama wants us to so we won't be aware of the slow dissent into World War III and possible nuclear armageddon at the hands of a madman.

http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2013/03/op-ed-prelude-to-war.html

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