The Forgotten War

Stuck inbetween roughly World War II and the Vietnam War, the Korean War also known as The Forgotten War is a Cold War esque conflict still intact arguably through decades of tensions, and despite the ironic nickname, it still remains an obscure battle field of the past and the present in the far east.

Having seen and visited both North and South Korea as well as China and Japan already, and as I am about to discover Vietnam in parallel among other countries this month, I think that I have a good overall insight inside the majority of the belligerents involved regarding this war history.

Recently, as if tensions weren't high enough already back in 2013, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have been exchanging harsh and warmongering words, as their regimes blame each other for destabilizing the far east Asia region, and arguably the entire world with nuclear weapons involved.

Objectively, the West propaganda machine proclaims the DPRK to be the sole aggressor on the Korean Peninsula, but if you might recall my previous blogs regarding this conundrum, there is much more happening here than that the regime is provocative with threats of ashes of fire happening.

It is desperately clinging onto national survival, and the nuclear deterrance is it's best method of defense against the imminent invasion/self defence alliance of the US, ROK and Japan. Even China is working against it's ally through economic sanctions, but I still believe that they as well as Russia would assist if a new war would break loose.

The worst outcome of this all would be to have another nuclear disaster or holocaust to happen in the 21st century, and this time the damage would be much more severe than back in the 1940's, as the war technology and the quantity of the weapons has improved.

My next step of this strategic map would be to basically leave North Korea alone, and acknowledge that it really is the USA that needs to back off quite a bit, and possibly even let it's troops leave South Korea at least, so that the Koreans can have space and diplomatic means for themselves, while the US can chill out over at Japan, I mean it has enough military bases in the world already, which proves that it is acting as a police cop of worldly proportions.

If you don't know much about the Forgotten/Korean War yet, consider reading up about it, so that the current war rhetoric can be understood better. Again, I really hope that a reunification will happen in my lifetime, but as said, the worst consequence would be to have millions and millions of deaths happening.

And that is why this political blog is part of the October horror month, as this consequence could definitely become a reality, arguably even triggering World War III.