Testing Obama: Don't Overlook The Unsettling Korean War Scenario

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From The World Tribune:

WASHINGTON — As the United States focuses on the new Israeli war, and president-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, North Korea is revving up its rhetoric against South Korea and ailing leader Kim Jong-Il has visited military units in a worrying display of intimidation.

For the first time in 14 years, Kim chose to visit a military unit on New Year's Day, as noted by South Korea's Unification Ministry, rather than go to a factory or pay homage at the memorial bearing his father Kim Il-Sung's remains. The emphasis on the North's military-first policy was accompanied by a particularly ferocious attack on the South's conservative government as "the fascist rule of the sycophantic and treacherous conservative authorities".

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My Comment: If there is a war that will result in massive American casualties .... it is a war with North Korea. Such a conflict will dwarf all conflicts for the past 50 years.