The BBC has outstanding coverage of the increasing bellicose rhetoric and military maneuvers on the Korean peninsula. In addition to the breaking news from Moscow, where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned this week that "we may simply let the situation slip out of our control and it will slide into a spiral of a vicious circle," there are several links to the following:
- Andrea Berger, a research fellow in nuclear analysis at the Royal United Services Institute, gives her assessment of the motivations behind Pyongyang's latest round of dire threats, including Thursday's announcement in the North Korean state-run media that leader Kim Jong-un has "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists."
- A report from Seoul detailing the heightened anxiety in the South Korean government and citizenry over North Korea's saber rattling.
- An analysis of the effectiveness of measures taken so far to constrain Pyongyang such as U.N. sanctions and joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that have included flights of nuclear-capable U.S. warplanes this month over South Korea.
- And a dissection of North Korea's military capabilities to carry through on its threats against the United States and South Korea.
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