Blog Seven Assignment

Rising Tensions 

            If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you have seen the rapidly growing animosity between North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Pyongyang, and President Trump. For more than 6 decades now, North Korea has been in the hands of lunatic monarch dictators, intent on trying to show their power off to the world while severely oppressing their citizens. But after all this time, the conflict between the United States and North Korea has reached its peak as North Korea threatens to fire nuclear weapons against the U.S. if threatened.

            These threatens started when Pyongyang felt intimidated when President Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to be fired on a Syrian military airbase, where the chemical weapon that killed over 100 people in Syria, were believed to have been launched from. Since then, Pyongyang has said that he will not hesitate to fire nuclear missiles as a preemptive strike. But these sort of statements are coming from a young boy who has been taught everyone must bow to him, nonetheless, he does possess nuclear capability. Though one starts to interpret these words as somewhat empty threats since the maximum missile range that they possess could only get as far as Alaska. But given that their last nuclear missile test failed after it “blew up almost immediately”, I think that might be a fair assumption. However, President Trump is not backing down and has already send the submarine, USS Michigan, to join aircraft carrier, Carl Vinson, to dock in South Korea. The last President Trump has said on this issue came late yesterday when he told the press that “major, major conflict with North Korea is possible, but that he would prefer a diplomatic solution”.  Diplomacy is indeed needed but I do not think it wise either to back down when faced with nuclear threats.