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Brendan Scott and Adrian Leung, Bloomberg: A Second Korean War Could Quickly Spread Across All of Asia
* Northeast Asia’s geography reveals the peril of any strike
* Great powers risk being drawn into escalating conflict
A recent survey commissioned by the New York Times found that people who could find North Korea on a map were more likely to favor talks over military action. A glance at North Asia’s geography explains why.
More than six decades after the Korean War ended without a peace treaty, the peninsula remains bisected in a perpetual stalemate, with the U.S.-backed South Korean military lined up against more than a million North Korean troops. While tensions have occasionally flared -- such as after Kim Jong Un’s weapons tests or threats of “merciless revenge” over American-led military exercises that began Monday -- the two sides have so far staved off another devastating conflict.
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WNU Editor: What would be even more insane than North Korea starting a war with South Korea while launching military strikes against Japan directly and U.S. bases throughout Asia .... would be China siding with North Korea. In that event .... all bets will be off .... and I could only shudder on what such a conflict may eventually lead to .... because such a war will definitely engulf all of Asia.
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