” South Korean houses burning on TV has a political impact that will make morning in South Korea - which comes up in a few hours - very interesting. Will also be interesting to see how the market opens over there. “
‘Interesting’... Yeah....
And how much more ‘interesting’, should there be another attack/provocation overnight? (Here, that is... Pesky time differences...)
“And how much more ‘interesting’, should there be another attack/provocation overnight?”
And the scary thing is that we’re left wondering what Obama is going to do. He actually has be to be a leader now and deal with a real crisis, with millions of lives at stake....but has no military experience and is surrounded by lalas who’ve got their heads too far stuck up his rear end to even know what to do!
What has got to make the .mil and .gov folks in the US and ROK a little concerned (as compared to past incidents of DPRK provocations) is that all this is happening in the midst of a power succession. Who is really calling the shots? Was this Kim, Kim Jr., military brass?
One of the primary ways to keep a lid on potentially escalating situations like this is to keep lines of communication open. But what if you don’t know who you are communicating with or if who you are communicating with isn’t in control anymore?