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Eye on the World: North Korea
North Korea’s rhetoric last week included talk of a “preemptive nuclear attack” and “all-out war,” as well as threats to withdraw from the Korean War armistice that’s been in place since 1953.
On Monday, as the United States and South Korea conducted war exercises, North Korea cut off a phone hotline to the South and apparently voided the armistice. Though neither move is new — the hotline has been cut off before and North Korea withdrew from the armistice in 2009 and half a dozen times before that — tensions on the peninsula are high. Some observers worry that the presence of South Korean and American troops could lead to escalation.
A recent audio chat, “For peace in the Asia Pacific,” focuses (in its second half) on tension on the Korean Peninsula, and on how prayer can be an antidote to conflict. Our prayers, recognizing that all of God’s children reflect honesty, meekness, and spiritual courage, can have an effect on the world stage, paving the way for solutions that bring about security for all.
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