{"id":268,"date":"2010-12-17T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-11-01T14:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:49:34","slug":"north-korea-and-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"North Korea and Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17, 2010 the North Korean official news agency KCNA issued a warning that they will launch more attacks if South Korea proceeds with its planned military exercises, \u201cThe strike will play out a more serious situation than on November 23 in terms of the strength and scope of the strike.\u201d That strike killed four civilians living on Yeonpyeong island.<\/p>\n<p>Uriminzokkiri, the official website of the communist state, said that war was only a matter of time, \u201cBecause of the South Koreans\u2019 reckless war policies, it is not about war or peace on the Korean peninsula but when the war will break out,\u201d and further they declared that \u201cIf war breaks out, it will lead to nuclear warfare and not be limited to the Korean peninsula.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their increasingly bellicose pronouncements, including the threat of a nuclear war, make it clear that a long term solution on the Korean peninsula requires that either the South Korean border be extended to the Yalu River or the Chinese border be extended to the 38<sup>th<\/sup> parallel. I\u2019m not sure I care which. Given the sorry state of the North Korean economy I suspect that both South Korea and China would each prefer it be the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/?attachment_id=17\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"typewriter2\" src=\"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/typewriter2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17, 2010 the North Korean official news agency KCNA issued a warning that they will launch more attacks if South Korea proceeds with its planned military exercises, \u201cThe strike will play out a more serious situation than on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/?p=268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borjeson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}