11 February 2024

Is a new Korean war in the offing?

In recent days, U.S. media have been proclaiming that North Korea plans to initiate military action against its neighbour to the south. An article by Robert L. Carlin and Siegfried S. Hecker, neither previously prone to making wild assertions, created quite a splash and set off a chain reaction of media fear-mongering. In Carlins and Heckers assessment, [W]e believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war. They add that if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is convinced that engagement with the United States is not possible, then his...