Despite rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula,... many experts believe North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un is unlikely to start a war he cannot win.
Still, many fear the chances of a nuclear exchange are at their highest point since
the Cuban Missile Crisis,... more than half-a-century ago.
Yu Joonhee reports.
CBS News, citing various pundits on Wednesday,... says the survival of the regime in Pyongyang,...
is its leader Kim Jong-un's top priority,... despite behavior that could otherwise be seen
as reckless and irrational.
They also say,... that although Pyongyang may, or may soon have the capability to devastate
an American city with a nuclear-tipped ICBM,... it's seen as having no ability to destroy
the U.S. outright.
However, amid the escalating war of words... and brewing mistrust between Washington and
Pyongyang,... experts say even the slightest of miscalculations could easily trigger a
full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula.
(English) "My concern is that cumulatively some sort
of miscalculation where Kim doesn't take something seriously and he reacts..."
There are some observers who also fear... that the world is closer to nuclear war than
it has been at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Although it's hard to predict,... the exact shape and form of a potential military conflict
on the Korean Peninsula... the death toll is easily expected to be in the hundreds-of-thousands,
if not millions.
Those fears continue to persist,... with the harsh verbal tit-for-tat between the U.S.
and North Korea,... showing no signs of cooling down at the moment.
Yu Joonhee, Arirang News.
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