The situation is totally nonsensical.
The North cuts the last phone line to the south, but allows cross border traffic for people to work in factories...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/w...uts-last-remaining-hotline-to-south.html?_r=0
So, come on....
Why would you start a war, or even threaten one, that you and your generals have to know that they will lose?
There's only two scenarios I can come up with.
One: Kim what's'is'name and his officers are totally self deluded and after fifty years of propaganda they've started to believe they are invincible.
or
Two: China has told them to go for it as a pretext for their own expansionist goals beginning with seizure of Formosa (Taiwan), knowing that the North will need bailed out militarily and can then be annexed to the PRC as a condition for peace, which Mr. Obama will sign off on as soon as he could find a pen.
The North cuts the last phone line to the south, but allows cross border traffic for people to work in factories...
The two countries run a joint industrial park at Kaesong, the last standing symbol of inter-Korean cooperation that has survived the political tensions of recent years. Seoul officials said 887 South Korean workers were in Kaesong on Wednesday. The traffic was running normal on Wednesday, South Korean officials said, indicating that the North Korean military did not go so far as to stop cross-border economic exchanges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/w...uts-last-remaining-hotline-to-south.html?_r=0
So, come on....
Why would you start a war, or even threaten one, that you and your generals have to know that they will lose?
There's only two scenarios I can come up with.
One: Kim what's'is'name and his officers are totally self deluded and after fifty years of propaganda they've started to believe they are invincible.
or
Two: China has told them to go for it as a pretext for their own expansionist goals beginning with seizure of Formosa (Taiwan), knowing that the North will need bailed out militarily and can then be annexed to the PRC as a condition for peace, which Mr. Obama will sign off on as soon as he could find a pen.