As you might've heard, some time ago a South Korean corvette has been sunk by, as the recent investigation proves, a North Korean torpedo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinkingThe NK denies involvement, despite investigators having recovered parts of said torpedo, and calls it a slander.
Some sources point out that the sinking could be a revenge action for the naval skirmish which happened in november last year.
After a conlcusive evidence has been found, South Korea suspended all trade relations with NK and announced it'll resume "psychological warfare" against it's northern neighbour, meaning mostly renewed propaganda broadcasts over the demilitarized zone.
NK responded with putting it's army on high alert.
Exactly a year ago, North Korea unilaterally withdrawn from the armstice of 1953, leading to a renewed state of war between the two nations.
What do you think, my good people? Is this a begining of an open war in the Korean peninsula? In such case, would NK be willing to use it's newly acquired nuclear arsenal? Maybe it's acquisition emboldened them so that they feel they can take on their old enemies without fearing a sneak attack from China?
Could this really be a slander manufactured by the SK, maybe? Maybe they feel a need to get rid of that troublesome twin of theirs, before the North expands it's nuclear arsenal to something more than barely flying rockets and low-yeld warheads.
Do you think Kim Jong-il would risk heavy economic sanctions just to get some "revenge"? Perhaps the nation needed a show of patriotic action to stay calm?