Can war on the Korean Peninsula be averted?

The US seems to have decided it cannot tolerate China as a threat to its global hegemony.

But how to attack or put pressure on China? Logistically and politically Taiwan is out of the question. But the brewing tension between South Korea and North Korea provides an opportunity, not unlike the Ukraine-Russia situation.

In other words, a war using proxies.

Under a new South Korean leader, the ultraconservative, Yoon Suk Yeol, nuclear tensions have been ratcheted up again on the Korean peninsula. According to the US Brookings Institute border clashes in recent weeks reflect a breakdown in inter-Korean relations and........

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