North Korea, a threat to most of Northeast Asia in the best of times, became a nuclear power in 2006. With the ability to launch nuclear-tipped nukes, North Korea is now a Pacific-wide threat, able to hit the US West Coast.
Considering the growing instability on the planet, worse case Russian attack west, Chinese attack on Taiwan, Iranian assault in the Persian Gulf, and North Korean attack into South Korea would be the ultimate nightmare, Given the low quality of Western leadership at this point in history, the scenario gets scarier.
Fortunately, Russian and Chinese leadership has not been all that impressive in 2022 as Russia's bog-down Ukrainian venture and China's sound and fury over Taiwan, basically just launching missiles into the water despite threats of force.
The problem is North Korea.
If they were to attack into South Korea, a second Korean War could pull everyone into a conflict that could turn into the scenario above. That is how the First World War started. Terrible leadership that lost control of a local Balkans crisis that turned into the nightmare of 1914-1918 and set the stage for the a worse war twenty years later.
Big difference between then and now are the nukes.
If everyone loses control (if they had it to begin with), the war comes to everyone's home.
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