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Isn't that what it already is?

• alansammarone 9y ago
  Well, the cold war was much more severe. I meant to ask "Could this last 50 years, involve many proxy battles and grow to a cold-war-scale political tension?".
  • roywiggins 9y ago
    There's been a frozen conflict on the peninsula since the Korean War ended. The NK artillery aimed at Seoul have been deterring another one since then. The deterrence is now at least partly mutually nuclear, which is a difference, but we have been unwilling to fight another war on the peninsula for decades because of the unavoidable civilian casualties. As to proxy battles, NK is not a super power like the Soviets were. They can't fight proxy wars. But they can shell ROK islands, sunk ROK ships, make threats, stage provocations across the DMZ, all of which they've done before.
    • KGIII 9y ago
      Indeed, it is a frozen conflict. There is only an armistice, a cease-fire agreement, and no actual treaty. Combat has ended, but the Korean War hasn't actually reached a resolution. I'm not so sure we can call much of anything much of a battle since the armistice, though there have been numerous accusations of violating the agreement and there have been some deaths since the armistice agreement.