Tensions build as the games get closer

On Friday February 9th, 2018 the olympic games will start in South Korea. As it stands, North Korea is likely to attend the games. The North and South have been divided since 1953, and are technically still at war.

Tension has been building between the U.S. and the North as President Donald Trump bashes the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un multiple times over twitter stating “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.’ Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” At one of the Administration’s cabinet meeting at the White House, the President stated that North Korea would be met with “fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” and at the United Nations General Assembly speech, the President consistently raised the issue of nuclear warfare by warning that “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime,”

Recently, South Korea has made attempts to talk to its northern neighbors. These are the first talks in two years in which North Korea will use its advancing nuclear program to demand essential resources that it is lacking, such as food and medicine. North Korea has been in and out of droughts and famines and the government cannot effectively ration out food starving his own people. Still, South Korea is positive about the upcoming meeting, stating the games will go “beyond all political division.” Any deal that will be proposed will hopefully not end in nuclear annihilation.