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I think its pretty close by the looks of things. The way donald is being unpredictability on form by aggressively attacking Syria's military base and kim jung un being his erratic self it makes a dangerous mix of volatile personalities and potentials of huge conflict. The american military views a Nuclear capable N.Korea a threat to their globalist and strategic interests, they think starting a war now is better than starting a war much later on when N.Korea has developed long range nuclear missile capability to strike the US mainland if it was start war later on. Problem they have got is that N.Korea would launch a devastating nuke and short-medium range missile attacks on US bases in Japan, S.Korea and elsewhere or even give technical nuclear tech to other nations to attack the US and its allies. So from that basic analysis I can see things going downhill pretty fast starting this year.

The North Korean army said it has final approval to launch "merciless" military strikes against the United States, including the use of nuclear weapons. In a statement published by the North's official KCNA news agency, the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said the United States was formally informed that its threats would be "smashed by ... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means," according to Agence France-Presse. It remains unclear what threats the statement refers to. "The merciless operation of [our] revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified," the statement reads. According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the statement also said the North would "take a series of strong, actual military countermeasures as the Supreme Command solemnly declared at home and abroad." The Pentagon confirmed earlier on Wednesday that an advanced ballistic missile defense system was being sent to Guam to protect US interests as a precaution against North Korea's threats. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday that the hermit kingdom's threats presented a "real and clear danger" to the United States and its allies, South Korea and Japan. "They have nuclear capacity now, they have missile delivery capacity now," said Hagel. Also Wednesday, the North barred South Korean workers from the joint Kaesong industrial park. Earlier in the week, Pyongyang said it was restarting the Yongbyon nuclear reactor to step up production of nuclear weapons materials. The North has condemned the US deployment of advanced weapons such as B-52 and B-2 bombers, F-22 fighters, and a nuclear-powered submarine and destroyer to the Korean Peninsula for annual joint military drills with the South, Yonhap noted. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/north-korea/130403/north-korea-military-strike-nuclear-united-states