FORT BRAGG, N.C. — “Storm clouds are gathering” over the Korean Peninsula that the United States military must do its part by being ready for war, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared on Friday. Such workers are seen as a key source of revenue for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s cash-strapped government. Fehrenbach’s military classic “This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness,” first published in 1963, a decade after the Korean War ended. Asked about recent reports that families of US service members in South Korea might be evacuated, Mattis stressed his belief that diplomacy could still avert a crisis. ADVERTISEMENT“I don’t think it’s at that point yet,” he said, adding that an evacuation of American civilians would hurt the South Korean economy.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2017 22:52 UTC