Korean Turmoil

North Korea is promising a "retaliatory sacred war"
amidst military drills set to be held on Sunday with about 8,000 US and S. Korean troops, 200 aircraft (featuring 4 F-22 "Raptor" stealth fighters) and some 20 ships and submarines participating in "war games" set to be carried out in the East Sea
specifically as a threat to disengage North Koreas nuclear programs.
A spokesman for the North stated a day prior that these military games would trigger a "physical response" and now threatens:
"The army and people of the (North) will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises".
These military exercises by the South have been steamrolling lately,
at the end of May the North reacted to one such drill by saying
they will meet "confrontation with confrontation" and "war with all out war"
Many suspect Honolulu is an intended target for Kim Jong.

28,5000 US troops and the nuclear warship the USS George Washington regularly sit in South Korea waters to which Pyongyang says is a key factor behind its drive to build nukes.

Tensions have intensified since the March of 2010 sinking of the South Korean warship the Cheonan in which 46 sailors were killed.
The goverments of Seoul, South Korea and the US have blamed the attack on the North Korean military which has been increasingly denied by Kim Jon il of the North firing back accusing Seoul of faking the attack
and saying allegations that they sunk the Cheonan are "unpardonable".
Evidence has even pointed out that the US may be to blame as a US rising sea mine was at fault (not a North Korean torpedo) and the day of the attack a US mine laying ship called Salvo was present in the area.
Still others believe a german torpedo was at fault.

Recent sanctions proposed by both Hillary Clinton and the European Union
have provoked the North to pledge "powerful physical measures"
adding "We are ready for both dialogue and war"

The North proposed a treaty to be comprised but Hillary noted that progress in the short term seems unlikely.

Obviously when you enforce strict sanctions on a country and escalate penalties at will
you are antagonizing the enemy and challenging them to a fight,
much like a bully.

It must also be noted that Kim Jong il has been rumored to be extremely ill
some insisting he has life threatening pancreatic cancer.
If these rumors prove to be true Kim Jong has already appointed his son as successor.
Whom many believe has something to prove.

Must we go country to country and accuse leaders of building "weapons of mass destruction"
when we are the ones who hold the grandiose ratio of nuclear stockpiles
(5,113 active & inactive warheads to be exact)
and indeed pose the biggest threat?

in regards to the previous Korean War, or "forgotten war":
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
- George Santayana