I give you a timeline of events that might be leading us down a road to war:
The Road to War ?
12-11-2011 | Death of Jong-Il Kim | |
07-02-2012 | North Korea’s Jong-Un reportedly loosens restrictions and allows women to wear pants, earrings, platform shoes, and ends bans on hamburgers, fries, pizzas. | |
South Korea’s Unification Minister remarks that there are signs that North Korea may be changing. | 07-25-2012 | |
07-30-2012 | North Korea rebukes any suggestion that it is opening up or changing. | |
08-02-2012 | North Korea requests emergency aid following devastating floods that left over a hundred people dead and tens of thousands homeless. | |
The Institute for Science and International Security issues a report stating that in a worst-case scenario, North Korea could have 48 nuclear weapons by 2016. | 08-30-2012 | |
09-10-2012 | North Korea accepts aid from South Korea, following a cyclone that left several dozen dead and tens of thousands homeless. | |
09-20-2012 | North Korea and Iran announce a nuclear technology pact. | |
South Korea announces that it has reached an agreement with the US to extend the range of its ballistic missiles. | 10-07-2012 | |
10-09-2012 | North Korea says that its missiles can reach Japan, Guam and the US mainland. | |
President Obama, speaking in Burma, says, “To the leadership of North Korea, I have offered a choice: let go of your nuclear weapons and choose the path of peace and progress. If you do, you will find an extended hand from the United States of America.” | 11-19-2012 | |
12-01-2012 | North Korea announces plans to launch rocket to space, as soon as Dec. 10th. | |
US sends warships to the region to track and, if necessary, defend against a rocket launch. | 12-07-2012 | |
Japan announces that it will shoot down any rocket if it threatens to land on Japanese soil. | 12-07-2012 | |
12-10-2012 | North Korea temporarily halts rocket launch, due to a glitch; states it will still go ahead with a launch. | |
12-12-2012 | North Korea launches a payload into space, demonstrating long-range rocket capabilities previously not known to exist. | |
UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution condemning North Korea’s rocket launch in December. | 01-22-2013 | |
01-24-2013 | North Korea issues warning that it will perform a nuclear test and point weapons at the US. | |
South Korea issues warning to North Korea over conducting any nuclear tests. | 01-31-2013 | |
02-05-2013 | North Korea issues video showing New York in flames. | |
02-12-2013 | North Korea performs nuclear test. | |
02-19-2013 | North Korea threatens South Korea’s “final destruction”. | |
02-20-2013 | North Korea issues video showing flames over US and SK troops and President Obama. | |
US announces dates for annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve joint US-SK military exercises (March 1 - April 30). | 02-21-2013 | |
02-23-2013 | North Korea issues threats of destruction in response to Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises. | |
Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises begin. | 03-01-2013 | |
03-05-2013 | North Korea warns it may cancel the 1953 Armistice to the Korean War, suspending activities at the Panmunjom truce village and severing the Red Cross phone line between nations. | |
South Korea says that NK’s current military exercises may provoke the South into action. | 03-07-2013 | |
Unanimous UN Security Council vote for additional NK sanctions stemming from nuclear test in February. | 03-07-2013 | |
03-11-2013 | North Korea cuts off Red Cross phone line. | |
03-12-2013 | North Korea’s media reports that Jong-Un Kim told troops to be on “maximum alert” because “war can break out right now”. | |
US flies B-52 nuclear-capable bombers over South Korea as part of Foal Eagle exercise. | 03-20-2013 | |
03-20-2013 | North Korea stages drone attack on a simulated South Korean target, supervised by Jong-Un Kim. | |
03-20-2013 | A computer virus wipes out computers in a coordinated attack on South Korean banks, televisions stations and other sites. | |
03-21-2013 | North Korea turns on air sirens for an hour, placing its forces on high alert. | |
UN Human Rights Council unanimously passes a resolution to investigate human rights violations in North Korea, over starvation, torture and the execution / jailing of political prisoners. | 03-21-2013 | |
03-22-2013 | North Korea condemns UN investigation and says it will ignore it. | |
03-27-2013 | North Korea cuts off military phone line that was used to coordinate operations of Kaesong complex. | |
US announces that B-2 stealth bombers participated in Foal Eagle, including bombing runs with dummy munitions. | 03-28-2013 | |
03-29-2013 | North Korea announces a decision to point missiles at South Korea, Guam and the US. | |
03-30-2013 | North Korea states that it is in a state of war and that it, “will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war.” | |
03-31-2013 | North Korea’s Worker’s Party Central Committee states that its nuclear program is non-negotiable. | |
US sends F-22 fighter jets to participate in Foal Eagle exercise. | 04-01-2013 | |
04-02-2013 | North Korea blocks access into Kaesong, the joint industrial complex (in 2009 NK blocked access three times during the annual US-SK joint military exercises.) | |
04-02-2013 | North Korea announces it will restart its plutonium reactor. | |
04-03-2013 | China is seen moving some military units to the border with North Korea in possible anticipation of a flood of refugees. | |
04-03-2013 | North Korea’s army says that it has received approval to launch attacks against the US. | |
US announces it is moving mobile radar tracking and anti-missile systems to Guam. | 04-03-2013 |
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