Final War Won't Be in Korea

Missile tests from genus constitute, for the United States and its allies, a serious threat to national security and world stability, and Chancellors of Asia, Europe and North America are working hard to avoid conflict. A conflict that can become the first nuclear arms conflict since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the case of North Korea. Right now, the only sure thing is that Kim Jong, with all his limitations, is an unintelligible character, but not crazy. The leader of Korea knows that a war with the United States will have no positive consequences for it except the annihilation of his government, regime change and death of millions.

North Korea cannot engage in a conflict because it knows that by causing countless casualties, it will receive nothing. And for this very reason, the Pentagon is holding on to the hypothesis of a so-called <x0-war pre-emptive”: there is no preventative attack that would eliminate all missiles within seconds and even at best, there would be time to launch even a single missile, able to destroy a city in South Korean territory. In that sense, it is interesting to note how this is the constant danger situation that seems to guarantee the exclusion of an open war because no one wants to ridicule its existence.

But while the whole world for North Korea as a capable element to plunge the world back into atomic chaos, hypocrisy is also being revealed, as a pandoran box, of the international political system. Because if missile tests are considered a threat to the world, there's another scenario, between two other countries, where the situation is obviously more complex and more colourful than Korean. Going down, in fact, south towards the Indian Ocean, two countries at war with each other continue to develop advanced nuclear programmes, and tests of ballistic missiles deployed against each other: it's India and Pakistan. The two Asian countries live in a state of constant war and have not signed the nuclear-proliferation treaty. In recent months, ballistic tests have increased and manifested, in the face of worldly indifference, the fact that peace between these two nations is far away.

India, in December of last year, conducted the latest test for launching Agni-V missile. Heavy 50 tons and 17m long, the carrier is able to transport nuclear warheads up to 2,500 miles [2,500 km] away. A test that gives India the keys to entry into the club of countries capable of conducting an interccircular nuclear war. A key test for the stability of Asia, but that no one at the international forum has decided to condemn. And yet, it needs to be remembered, India is currently at war with Pakistan over Kashmir and continues to increase friction with the rival superpower of China. Thus, it should not be taken for granted that tests are conducted in New Delhi, especially when it is thought to be a country that owns at least 120 nuclear warheads.

Pakistan, at the same time, has a higher nuclear power than that of India and also continues to conduct ballistic tests, not particularly useful for regional stability and for peace with neighbouring India. Its Arsenal consists of about 140 nuclear warheads, and like India, the Islamic sides are working to expand the number of warheads. Recent missile tests from Pakistan have also shown an increase in ballistic capacity -- in January 2017 tested with “successful “ ” launching a Babur-3 missile that can carry a rocket head about 450 km away. The difference compared to Indian tests is that this test was done by a submarine, so that makes 450 kilometers more dangerous.

To make the nuclear scene between India and Pakistan more disturbing, came the last statement by Pakistani former leader Musharraf, who discovered that in 2002, following the attack on the Indian Parliament by terrorist Islamic groups, we arrived at a point of tension, where for days we intended to attack India with nuclear missiles.

And, even India, in turn, never denied that it specifically sent an ultimatum to the government in Islamabad with the threat of nuclear missiles to Pakistani soil. A war scenario that was later renewed in 2008, when the Islamic group Lashcar-e Taiba killed hundreds of people in Bombay, and the Indian government had already decided to mobilize the army to invade Pakistan. And there are scenarios that can be repeated in the coming years, especially because of strengthening the alliance between Pakistan and China and ever closer relations between India and the United States.

The hostility between India and China has become more and more important in Asian geopoliticalism, and the conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad will only be the precedent of a wide - spectrum war, where, indeed, nuclear weapons can be used. A risk that transforms Kim Jong's threats into something far less disturbing, but reveals all hypocrisy of the global nuclear weapons problem perception. /Il Gyornale World.al