The recent salvo of encounter between the two Koreas has brought its entire neighboring nations a point of contemplation. This small nuclear-armed nation can wage war whenever he wants considering that it has in its hands the trigger of nuclear holocaust in Asia.
This show of force is unprecedented since 1953 when both signed an Armistice Agreement which would virtually end hostilities between the two. However, such agreement could not possibly sustain with the aggressive posture of the North.
By being silent about this impending global crisis would certainly espouse the more danger that it can bring throughout Asia. This concern has long been expected by many countries especially the United States who is more determined to defend its ally and put pressure on the North expectedly that it would yield to its own condition.
I should say that this small communist state can stimulate a nightmarish experience that would send every Asian country into the verge of war. Although now that China preferred to let go the whims of its ally, this could certainly affect its own security undertaking. What is feared is the tremendous effect of such provocative action to the overall economic performance when all the other nations trading with China would have that certain pinch and decided to withdraw all its financial trade interests and bring them out to somewhere else.
Admittedly, China is economically considered as a giant. And it has history that it can survive using the least means that it can raise out of its own resources. Nevertheless China yesterday is different that what it should undertake today. This giant needs to stage its own brand of peaceful undertaking that would encourage others to follow suit. If it would not heed to the call of condemning the recent attack of its ally, it would just have to open a new ‘padora box’ that reveals its real means allowing North Korea undertake such dangerous act, to the detriment of all diplomatic initiatives that other countries have been trying to extract.
I believe that North Korea is now becoming a ‘recalcitrant violator’ of world’s peaceful means in diplomacy. Many believed that this would be the dawn of stunted showcase that will cement the impending transfer of power from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un, the apparent heir; and it just made South Korea’s open military cooperation with the United States as an apparent scapegoat to stage such abominable attack on the South, marking such event of power transfer.
On the other hand, we can perceive this latest North Korean atrocity as the signification for its wild intention of eventually challenging the United States and its allies. Nobody yet knows what really is the real intention; but many believes that aside from the recent sanction impose on North Korea because of the sinking of a South Korean war ship in March, Nokor has come to its senses that it would be better to provoke a war to air their complaint and make use of the South Korea’s military drill a scapegoat for such an attack. It is as if a wild scenario to make it known to the world that they have this courage of endowing its own people of believing that they are that strong against their enemies.
Another point to ponder is the continued financial crisis that beset giant economy except China. With the recent war provocation, it would certainly bring out a message to all parts of the world that such kind of economic constriction on North Korea, the level of tolerance of its unpredictability in terms of diplomatic, would require a higher price to pay even to a cost of its total annihilation if in case the United States decides so. Practically, it would just be the same as that of Japan during the second world war; and Japan learned the lessons of history.
However, the whole scenario would not just come as many other thought about it. There must be some valid reason why North Korea has provoked a war with South Korea. And these reasons would not certainly come out to the open until the day that hostility between the two countries might end to a catastrophe.
It is also fitting for the South Korea to keep its own ranks ready for the consequences of its own decision, and they owe it to the United States and its allies. The strength that it can show to the North is the same strength that it can embolden particularly in this time of adversity.
However it is still hoped and prayed that peaceful resolution of this kind of deathly game will be given ample time and consideration. In any war of the past, both contending parties suffer the same consequence when they choose the crooked path.
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