ANALYSIS: Barriers to peace

It’s a month since the UN passed a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear testing. Since then a geopolitical game of cat and mouse has taken place between Pyongyang, Seoul, and Washington. David Keelaghan in Seoul looks at the potential consequences.

HOW do you know when sabre rattling is just that and not the precursor for something much more sinister?

It is a question that famously got the better of Neville Chamberlain, who will forever be remembered in history as such. The reason to ask this now of course is the events currently playing out on the Korean peninsula, in particular, its northern half.