North Korea’s threats of war should be taken seriously now

Published January 18, 2024 9:28am ET



North Korea just radically revised its constitutional policy toward South Korea, and the public should take it as a sign that a second Korean War is increasingly likely if we do not strongly assert ourselves on the global stage. 

In previous years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had remained largely consistent with the policy of his predecessors to aim for a reunification of the northern and southern halves of the Korean Peninsula under the assertion that South Koreans were being wrongly indoctrinated by the evil influences of capitalism and had to be liberated. 

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