THE US has been positioning its aircraft carrier strike force Carl Vinson and USS Michigan, an Ohio class nuclear submarine, off the coast of the Korean peninsula. Trump has threatened that if China does not intervene, the US will “solve the problem” of a nuclear Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) “all by itself”; presumably through military strikes. The French, never too far behind the US, have sent their amphibious assault carrier, the Mistral, for “joint manoeuvres”. The Korean peninsula and nearby countries including Japan, are now in imminent danger of another US military misadventure that can spin rapidly out of control.

Is Trump Starting a Second Korean War, This Time with Nuclear Weapons? | Peoples Democracy