Sunday, April 07, 2013


Will the North Korean leader go berserk and launch a nuclear war? Twenty-nine year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is playing up rhetorics transcending the frequency reached earlier by former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and present Iranian leader Ahmadi Nejad. Kim Jong-un has the inheritance of self-styled glorious leadership of his grandfather and father. This young leader could outwit his forefathers and do something nutty, that is what is feared by the US, South Korea and other world powers. The precocious N.Korean leader has threatened nuclear strikes on the US, formally declared war on South Korea and insists on reopening a nuclear reactor in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. He has already put the world leaders on tenterhooks. In the normal course, no one with sensible thinking would launch a nuclear war. There were reports earlier that Pervez Musharraf was planning to launch a nuclear missile against India during the Kargil war. The-then US President Bill Clinton had intervened to salvage the situation. If a man goes berserk, anything could happen in the world. Major religions have anticipated an armageddon-like occurrence. Let the present threat be not that miserable.

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