SCHLAGWORTE: war

The President of the United States is hell-bent on ultimate military confrontation, but his own country will be inviolate if the Korean Peninsula experiences his “military option.” He’ll be snug in his White House bunker while countless thousands die in a war that will almost certainly escalate to use of nuclear...

Quite recently, we discussed the North Korean response to the UN sanctions resolution, noting that from the North Korean side, the raising of the rates was minimal. However, this was only sufficient until a new round of retaliatory moves, which, in the author’s view, increased the likelihood of a...