Tension Increases between North and South Korea

Despite the decrease in anxiety over the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, it seems that the United States' support has angered North Korea. North Korea stated that South Korea's cooperation with the U.S. and Japan is a direct act of aggression.

That cooperation "is nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the North and the South and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula," Pyongyang's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

Personally, I see North Korea's 'quick to launch' campaign, as a way to make other countries relinquish anything that they request. A similar situation happened several decades ago, and countries take over by Hitler did not approve. I am in no way referring to North Korea as the next reich, but the act of appeasement is eerily similar. Considering the use of nuclear warfare, it is clear that the problem is not that simple, but the world cannot be expected to drop everything as soon as North Korea threatens to pick up the trigger.