Beware taking on Kim’s death cult: A pre-emptive strike by Trump or Jong-un could turn the Korean Peninsula into a ‘sea of flames’, writes MARK SEDDON
By MARK SEDDON
DailyMail.com
11 April 2017
What may be about to unfold on the Korean Peninsula could be far, far more serious and destructive than the continuing charnel house that is Syria’s brutal conflict.
Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that the world may stand on the very precipice of a Third World War.
The US has deployed an immensely powerful naval strike group to the seas around the Korean Peninsula. China has reportedly rushed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border.
But what makes all this truly terrifying is the unpredictable and compulsive nature of the two main players involved – President Donald Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The North Korean leader has already warned it has US bases ‘in its nuclear sights’. Meanwhile Trump has poured petrol on the fire by declaring – by Twitter, astonishingly – that ‘North Korea is looking for trouble’ and that if China ‘does not decide to help’, the US ‘will solve the problem without them’.
As one of the few Western journalists to have reported from deep inside North Korea on several occasions and to have met senior party officials and military leaders, I can say with certainty that any military action against North Korea would immediately engulf its near neighbours China, Japan and South Korea. But it could also see Britain dragged in.
I have been told that the Trump administration has now all but completed a review led by the National Security Council into all the options for dealing with a nuclear-armed, deeply hostile North Korea.
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