“In a sense, we are sleepwalking into a war, and I think that’s a dangerous situation,” Perry said. With no negotiations going on, the United States and North Korea are firing verbal volleys at each other, virtually making the world believe that a war is an option. North Korea has remained one of the “issues” on the US global geopolitical map. Moreover, overall inconsistency in Washington’s North Korea policies since the 1990s might have helped to generate some unexpected outcomes. In 1999, Donald Trump was asked about the escalation between the United States and North Korea in a Meet the Press interview.

Source: Manila Times September 23, 2017 16:07 UTC