Today I read North Korea will participate in the Olympics, for what that is worth.  The sport field and marketplace is where battle should take place.

Maybe peace will break out.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/01/08/korean-crisis-completely-phony/

…Ah, but now it seems the panic-mongers just might’ve been wrong: despite the fiery rhetoric coming from both Washington and Pyongyang: the theatrics both Kim and Trump are so fond of succeeded in obscuring the objective reality beneath the brouhaha: the fact that neither the North Koreans nor the Americans have any interest in taking the “crisis” to the melting point. That’s why the Demilitarized Zone has stood there every since the armistice, with only a few brave defectors crossing every once in a while. The North Koreans fought us to a standstill, and the conflict has remained frozen to this day – because neither side has any interest in resuming it. Read the rest of this entry »