JUMONG'S ARROW

I became interested with the issue of warring Korea (the North and the South) since its appearance in television prime time news and newspaper's headlines, maybe because of my strong interest for their history, cultures and traditions  as a result of my  pleasure in watching classic Chinese and Korean movies or  maybe because such issue is as hot as the summer and as appealing as the Philippine beaches and its young female patrons. But what caught more of my attentions are the strong words of the policymakers of each nations involved - depending their position on the strongest terms - words as destructive as their missiles and bombs. One slip of a tongue could ignite a war that is irrelevant. Here as some examples:

“Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival.”

-North Korean National Defense Commission

“The United States will defend and protect ourselves and our treaty ally, the republic of Korea.”

-US State Department Secretary John Kerry

“I am convinced that nobody intend to attack the DPRK because of disagreement about its nuclear system… however I am afraid that others will respond firmly to any military provocations.”

-UN Secretary Genarl Ban Ki-mmon

“If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial combat without any political considerations.”

-South Korean President Park Geun-hye

Is a war in the Korean Peninsula likely to happen? I still don't know. But I pray it will never happen. There are more ways to achieve peace than paths of war to destruction.