Communist North Korea is dangerously making trouble again – or still.
After World War II, when Korea was freed from Japanese occupation, the Soviet Union prevented unification of a free Korean nation. The Soviets established their occupation zone as a separate nation of Communist North Korea.
By contrast, the United States freed its occupation zone, which became the independent nation of South Korea.
Then in 1950, the Communist Koreans – supported by the Soviet Union – invaded South Korea. Only United States military intervention prevented Communist control of the whole Korean Peninsula. After a military stalemate, an uneasy “armistice” has prevailed since 1953, with repeated Communist North Korean trouble-making.
This week, Communist North Koreans fired on South Korea, killing two South Korean troops and two civilians. South Korea fired back.
With aggressive and irrational North Korea known to be developing nuclear weapons – and believed to possess some already – the Korean situation involves a serious threat that cannot be viewed only as a local danger.