Meanwhile, US sent a naval armada to the North Korean shore, led by Carl Vinson, an assault carrier, with the support of two missile destroyers. Washington has been threatening to strike North Korea the whole week, hoping to make them to abstain from nuclear testing.
North Korea responded with threats of a nuclear attack on US military bases in South Korea, Japan, and on the Territory of Guam. Technically, Pyongyang is equipped to do this. Also, North Koreans don't talk about it, but besides nuclear warheads, their missiles may be equipped with chemical ammo, according to the experts. In this case, one of the targets is the South Korean capital, the megapolis Seoul. So North Korea asks to abstain from provocations in its address, because as they say, in response to an all-in war, they'll declare an all-in war.
As a result, by this weekend the tension around North Korea reached a boiling point. It looks like the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un doesn't give a darn that Trump posts on his Twitter what mother-bomb he dropped on Afghanistan. After all, he's home. He doesn't plan to initiate an attack on anybody, but he'll respond in full if he needs to. And he's completely ready to raise the bets. Right now it's a battle of nerves. Who will win? The stakes are so high, that the last Korean war... a massacre with millions of victims seems like a small street squabble.
Right now the world is on the edge of a real nuclear war with all its catastrophic consequences. It might ignite as a result of a standoff between two personas — Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. They're both dangerous, but who's worse? If you want my opinion, Trump is more dangerous. And here's why. First, Kim Jong-un is prepared for negotiations, Trump isn't. Because of him, US left the six-party talks. Until now it was the only diplomatic tool for international communication with Pyongyang. Besides North Korea, it included Russia, China, South Korea, Japan and USA. US left, the tool is now broken.
Second, Kim Jong-un hasn't committed one aggressive act towards any country. He had launched his missiles, but they had no specific target or a military task. Donald Trump, however, just last week launched a massive missile strike on Syria. All the while he had no proof to justify his aggression. Thus, Trump is more impulsive and unpredictable than Kim Jong-un.
Third, Kim Jong-un didn't send a naval armada to the US shores. Donald Trump did send an assault carrier group to the North Korean shore. He also added he's ready to back it all up with nuclear submarines. And now for the fourth reason.
Kim Jong-un's only daughter Kim Ju-ae, who isn't even 5 yet, doesn't have her own office in the country leader's residency yet. And she doesn't even know what the American assault carrier Carl Vinson looks like in the pictures, or she'd ask her Dad what it was doing at the shore of her country.
However, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump have something in common. A limited international experience, unpredictability and willingness to fight. All this makes the situation around the Korean peninsula extremely dangerous. Let's add China, whose borders it all happens by, and we see that the scale of this collision becomes Cyclopean.
By the end of the week the degree of horror became so high, that US seemed to have changed their tune like they weren't going to shoot for now. But are they to be trusted? It's for you to decide. But remember, that until now, Trump always said "I won't let anybody in on my military plans". So let's watch the whole thing closely. Anyway, over 200 million people which is the total population of Japan and both Koreas feel like they're hanging by a thread from death. In this situation Kremlin appeals all countries to remain calm, and abstain from provocations.
