North Korea, ratcheting up
its already ratcheted up rhetoric, has SENT OUT yet another clear warning that
it will be full scale war on any given day if the US and South Korea continue
with their audacity of disturbing the North Korean poise.
Now we should appreciate this
poise by North Korea.
After all, despite having
sent so many feelers, so many stern messages and so many clear warnings FOR
DECADES, the great North Korean leaders, so far, have desisted (and RESISTED) from
embarking on even a small military skirmish..except firing some artillery
shells or cross-border shots, except allegedly sinking South Korean naval
vessels, except laying landmines in the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone between North
Korea and South Korea) that keeps on wounding South Korean soldiers and except violating
South Korean territorial waters.
Shouldn't it have been
difficult for North Korea to calm its nerves so as to remain the world let in
the green zone of no war in the region?
But for how long can their
patience be tested?
Whenever such times come, we
see a prompt warning from the quiet leaders of the hermit kingdom who believe
in living an isolationist, quarantined way of life, away from the materialist
creations that a modern, technology driven society brings. The North Korean
leaders have consciously shunned the materialist advances of a consumerist
world to stay close to nature. So even if the world has moved to 5G
smartphones, North Korea is jolly happy to savour the luxury of video cassette
and CD players in the country. And they are a prized possession. Only few in
the country has the outreach to possess these, the tech antiquities of the
modern day world.
And now, the times have
created yet another instance when the Kim nation has been FORCED to issue a
stern warning to the world. Like every sovereign nation believes, the North
Koreans, too, believe that they have the sovereign rights to develop the
warfare that can keep their way of life safe from the worldly intervention. SO
WHAT if the world doesn't believe that the North Korean missile or nuclear programme
is not peaeful and aimed at self-defense.
©SantoshChaubey