South Korea and The US Ramp Up on Defense Against the Furious of North Korea

Pyongyang is currently under the scrutiny of the world, perhaps more so than ever before. Seoul in South Korea claimed Monday that the Northern government is capable of yet another Nuclear test. This test would be the sixth test that North Korea has performed, causing even more alarm than is usually given to North Korea.

The Northern and Southern governments of Korea have technically been at war since 1950, with its current state being simply a cease-fire. While the world, and in particular China, the US and South Korea, have been ever vigilant of the dictatorship, it seems that within the last couple of months, monitoring has ramped up. North Korea is known for its outlandish cries, uttered into the world stage, claiming destruction and revenge for those who have crossed them. Most of these have been met with shrugs and casual displays of power from the US and South Korea.

The Yonhap news agency, however, is claiming from unidentified government sources that South Korea is growing more frustrated with the speech and actions of the North. Not only has South Korea began preparations for a possible very direct missile at the site of the North’s meeting place for its generals, but it has also turned to a harsher rhetoric. Usually, South Korea does not speak in jarring words, but President Park Geun-hye has spoken on Kim Jong Un’s mental state, claiming that it is “spiraling out of control.” She also spoke on the government of the North itself, calling it a form of “fanatic recklessness.” The U.N. has also moved towards harsher, though seemingly empty, sanctions on the nation’s nuclear policy in January, the North has promptly ignored these. North Korea is perhaps the most indefatigable global politics challenge for the US, perhaps only surpassed by Syria and ISIS.

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