NORTH KOREA'S KIM JOG-UN SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE TO AVOID WORLD WAR III !

THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Chairman of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK), who assumed office, 13th April, 2012, is in the "eye of the storm" for flexing nuclear muscles against the United States and other nations, including South Korea, which dared to cast aspersion on his country's super power capabilities in the area of modern technological nuclear weaponry.
The young leader had boasted of his country's dexterity in the invention and manufacture of highly sophisticated nuclear war heads, atomic/hydrogen bombs, which can destroy any nation, but had consistently claimed that his NUCLEAR PROGRAMME was specifically designed against US aggression!

Since assumption of office, Kim Jong-un had tested a number of provocative Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (IBMs), that have prompted international condemnation, though he accused the US of using the North Korea's nuclear programme as an excuse to mask its own opposition to banning nuclear weapons. He has also claimed through his envoy at the United Nation's (UN), mission, that, the US drove his country to make and possess nuclear weapons to defend itself against any American aggression. He said that the US was the first country to use nuclear weapons against Japan, during World War II and had continued to use them, "to threaten and blackmail other countries" including North Korea which supports the global effort to eliminate nuclear weapons " until the denuclearisation of the world is implemented."

The US had said that it would not participate in the UN talks aimed at banning nuclear weapons because "bad actors" wouldn't sign or comply with a potential treaty since "North Korea would be the one cheering and the people we represent would be the one at risk." Although there is a global move to totally ban nuclear weapons, the five nuclear powers, -US, Russia, China, Britain and France, have refused to attend the meeting, saying a ban won't work but opted for "a more (unexplained), gradual approach."
DPRK's envoy to the UN has disclosed that his country would not also take part in the talks because of joint military exercises by US and South Korea using Special Forces and "all kinds of nuclear strategic assets", AIMED AT SECRETLY INVADING NORTH KOREA TO ELIMINATE ITS LEADERSHIP!

AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE'S ASSASINATION CAUSED WORLD WAR 1: At the beginning of the 20th Century, precisely between 1914 and1918, the global conflict fought by most countries of the world and tagged, WORLD WAR 1, was so intense in fierceness, destruction of human lives, properties, and critical infrastructures of enormous dimension that it seemed the world would come to an end!

Historical records state that the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, on 28th June 1914, in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, part of former Yugoslavia, was the root cause of the war! The assassin shot Ferdinand as an act of protest against the AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF SERBIAN-SPEAKING BOSNIA and an expression of the pan-Slavic movement then popular among many in Eastern Europe. Austria-Hungary was a multinational state, (with a dozen official languages), most of the South-Central and Eastern Europe, with half of its population composed of SLAVS, who had nationalist ambitions! Though, fanatical nationalism could always cause rift, dissension, insurgency etc, it would seem ludicrous that such obsession would ever generate A WORLD WAR, BUT IT DID!

The conflict of interests between Russia and Germany in Austria which could have resolved the unfortunate development resulted in an unsuccessful and tortuous diplomacy since the Nazis preferred that Austria should punish Serbia for the assassination crime but Russia was opposed to the idea, and eventually when Austria declared war on Serbia, Germany belatedly tried to prevent the war from escalating but to no avail! And having taken side, Germany had no other choice than to declare war on Russia and later on France on 3rd August, 1914, and also invaded Luxembourg and Belgium, hoping to win a swift victory in the West and so be able to turn its attention on the more powerful Russian foe but failed in its calculation because Britain entered the war in support of France and Belgium since Germany was a potential economic and naval threat to her far-flung empire abroad.
Thus the stage was set for World War 1 which witnessed the introduction of new weapons - such as the submarine, the airplane and the tank - mobilized the entire manpower/economic resources of all combatant nations, devoured an estimated 10 million military men and an equal number of civilian causalities, cost more than $337 billion US dollars to execute in FOUR YEARS (1914-1918)!
Reasons for the aggressive nature of World War 1 could be traced to the previous French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in early 19th Century, which took Europe by surprise. When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he led an army of some 600.000 men! Napoleon1, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), was a military genius, brilliant organiser and deft administrator who dominated Europe for nearly 20 years, was one of the greatest conquerors in world history. With the exception of BRITAIN, his empire covered most of Western and Central Europe and extended from North Sea to Sicily and all neighbouring states were either under his control or in alliance with France.

World War II was even more disastrous: some 17million soldiers and 43 million civilians were killed at an estimated cost of $ 1.348 billion US dollars to execute sequel to the technological development of weaponry and the strategy of mass bombing of civilian populations which created destruction on an unprecedented scale! DRESDEN, HAMBURG, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI and many other cities were utterly destroyed! The introduction of NUCLEAR WEAPONS in World War II had thus signified a global threat of world-wide destruction!

NUCLEAR WEAPONS! The research for nuclear energy which relates to weapons or the use of weapons; which use the power produced when the nucleus of an atom is divided or joined to another nucleus has further spurred the unending confrontations between the Western and Eastern blocs since the end of World War II into greater stockpiling of destructive weapons of modern warfare of nuclear arsenal. The so-called super powers, which is headed by the United States, and Russia (head of former Soviet Union), are leading in the nuclear industry. Others members of the nuclear team, Britain, France, China and North Korea and are also capable of waging nuclear wars but would be checkmated through the concept of deterrence!

CONCEPT OF DETERRENCE - is an agreement which would disabuse the mind of any powerful nation from nuclear attack against another due to the advantage of hindsight that, such nation had equal or even more devastating capacity of nuclear weapons to strike back!
At the end of World War 1, the LEAGUE OF NATIONS which was instituted to broker peace among warring countries turned out to be weak and ineffective though it made an attempt to reach agreement on arms disarmament between 1921 and 1934, because it was neither supported by US nor Germany and while the delay lingered, World War II broke out in 1939 and ushered in the NUCLEAR AGE!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western Bloc's defence organization against any threat from the Eastern Bloc/German aggression in Europe or the North Atlantic area, debuted in the late 1940s, following the end of World War II and has functioned effectively to date with a modern headquarters recently commissioned in Brussels, Belgium, and with President Donald Trump who complained of NATO'S huge financial burden incurred by the US and admonished other members to pay up their dues.

NO MORE ASSASINATIONS PLEASE!
NORTH KOREA'S SUPREME LEADER MUST NOT BE ASSASINATED UNDER ANY GUISE BY THE US OR SOUTH KOREA AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO AVOID WORLD WAR III! THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD POWERS MUST put their Trust (faith and believe), and take refuge in the Lord and His Anointed, instead of NUCLEAR ARSENAL which is capable of destroying a World which they did not create!
There was a First World War and a Second World War, that were fought by men to confirm the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ that before His Second Advent to JUDGE THE WORLD: " And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew. 24:6-.

THE IMAGINED TIME BOMB IN NIGERIA!
Fanatical nationalism and Religious fanaticism are common place in Nigeria, going by the number of regular agitations and organised street protests, but it should not be allowed to degenerate into WARS AND CONFLICTS which could destroy the UNITY OF A DIVERSE NATION which had been nurtured for over a century and " bring the world to an end?"
WORLD WITHOUT END! Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. (Ephesians. 3: 21).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.