Hyper-tension throughout the Korean Peninsula. What is going on?

  Today, North Korea blocked the entry of South Korean workers into Kaesong Industrial complex, intensifying high tension between South Korea and North Korea. I feel that the tension is extremely high these days, and it even seems to get worse and worse.

  Tons of news articles pop up on the internet, and before I totally understand what is going on, another incident continually happens. Therefore,  I would like to summarise what has happened and what is going on throughout the peninsula at this point.

•   The first spark happened in December, 2012 when North Korea fired a three-stage rocket. What made it worse was that North Korea's firing the rocket was violation of a ban on North Korean ballistic missile tests, since the rocket was also related to the long-range missile technology. As a result, Many countries condemned the launch of the North Korean rocket including the UN Security Council. 

•   Another big spark happened in February, 2013. North Korea carried out a third underground nuclear test, which was said to be twice as big as the previous test in 2009. That deeply intensified the tension between South Korea and the North, and moreover, between the North and the UN. That was followed by the sanction over the North Korea by the UN Security Council. After the sanction, North Korea showed their anger with it. 

•   Last week on March 26th, North Korea ordered artillery and rocket units into "combat posture" to target US bases which are in Hawaii, Guam and the mainland of America. In a few days, as the reaction of that, American military showed their training of American stealth bombers flying over South Korea, followed by North Korea's urgent operations conference.

•    Yesterday, on April 2nd, North Korea stated that they will restart Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which was closed in 2007, and it seems to reoperate this Autumn. 

  As seeing above, North Korea is continuously carrying out their manoeuvres, violating agreements made with other countries, leading to more intensive tensions. 
 
 
  Beside the issues of North Korea's nuclear missiles, it seems that the North is also carrying on suspicious moves. On March 20th, the computer networks of broadcasters and banks in South Korea were paralysed by an unknown computer virus attack from hackers. The source of the network attack has not been clarified yet, but it is being assumed that the attack is from North Korea seeing that the tension between the South and the North is extremely high.

  In my opinion, North Korea would keep carrying out sensitive deeds, so South Korea would have to strongly react to the threats from the North. South Korean President Park Geun Hye said that South Korea is resolute in taking strong action against the threat. I really hope South Korea would do so. 

  As a result of the high tension, financial supports from other countries to North Korea seems to be taken back. If South Korea also withdraws their support to North Korea, the resource of North Korea would be depleted in the end, and the North would end up with stopping going onto the next step.

  I think the collapse of North Korea could happen from the inside of North Korea. It is said that more than the half of North Korean people are suffering from famine. I think it could happen that starving people would end up furious demonstration, leading to collapse of North Korea. That is just my little piece of comment.

  While North Korea is keeping their hostile attitude, the South cannot be sure what would happen, so I think South Korea should keep watching all the time. I hope these issues would be resolved as soon as possible. Let's keep watching how it would go.




* I referred to webpage of BBC News which is : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11421928 Check this webpage out for more information.

* Image sources are following below : 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/12/why-north-korea-loves-to-threaten-world-war-iii-but-probably-wont-follow-through/
http://news.in.msn.com/international/us-denounces-north-koreas-nuke-threats