The south has always been itching to invade the North, and its getting to the technological point where it could feasibly do it. DPRK nukes are the problem though, since the ROK doesn't have a real answer to that other than massed conventional retaliation and the hope that Washington will use their nukes, which I wouldn't bet on, De Gaulle got that one right. Especially since any nuclear attack on the DPRK will really upset the PRC who has the ability to retaliate in kind.
I doubt anything will come of it though, neither side has anything to gain from military action, but plenty to gain through distraction through the threat of military action.
Besides, what, feasibly, could the US do that it isn't already doing? Airstrikes on the DPRK? That's pretty much the narrative that the DPRK has been putting forward to its people anyway, that the US is ever ready to bomb the poor innocent people of Korea back into the stone age. Such an airstrike campaign could well escalate into a proper continuation of the Korean war anyway and could the US actually financially afford to fight it?
Anyway, I thought you guys were getting big on the old isolation train?
