“When the fate of the world hangs on these two mavericks, I really do fear we’re on the brink of apocalypse”

Trump is playing into his enemy’s hands, since the Kim regime relies on supposed threat of invasion from South Korea and the US to justify repression and poverty.

Outside my window in one of the world’s most advanced cities, I can hear protesters chanting angrily against ‘Crazy Trump’.

Barely 120 miles north, the world’s nastiest regime is displaying its military muscle in a menacing show of strength.

Just beyond them, the biggest army on earth is gathering on the border. To the east, a naval strike force sent by the planet’s superpower is steaming fast in this direction.

As the crisis over North Korea heats up with incendiary posturing and talk of nuclear attacks, these are fearful days – and Seoul is the planet’s hottest spot, trapped in the midst of a terrifying tussle between two maverick leaders.

There is dark humour on the streets of the South Korean capital but behind the jokes, nerves are jangling.

For this mega-city of 24 million people – overflowing with tech firms and fashionable teenagers – has most to lose if war breaks out again on the Korean Peninsula. It sits squarely in Pyongyang’s sights, in reach of conventional artillery dug into North Korean mountains only 35 miles away over the border, never mind Kim Jong Un’s arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons…

Source: I fear we’re on the brink of apocalypse, says IAN BIRRELL | Daily Mail Online