Tensions between North and South Korea are escalating due to recent ideological changes in North Korea, such as the abandonment of a 50-year-old policy of reunification through cooperation. North Korea now refers to South Korea as a permanent enemy and claims the maritime boundary is illegitimate. Additionally, North Korea considers any encroachment on its territory, even by the smallest measure, as a provocation of war.
As the hermit kingdom is getting ever cosier with Russia, it is becoming bolder in its provocations of conflict with the south. Growing risks of escalation threaten not just the region, but the world. The victims of the war in Ukraine are not just its people, but its animals too (09:48). And why the world is getting bigger (15:57).
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