North Korea continues its diplomatic brinksmanship.

In its ever-increasing roll as the center of attention in the Pacific Region, North Korea continues to exploit international fears. Even though the U.N. Security Council is preparing a list of companies from North Korea to be blacklisted because of their rocket launch, the threat seems to carry little concern for N. Korea. It is possible that N. Korea has been at this game so long that they are quite aware of the Security Councils capabilities or lack there-of.

Meanwhile the north refuses to release the detained worker from the Joint Industrial Park. For more information on this event see article below dated Monday, April 20, 2009.

North Korea is also trying to ramp up military tensions between the two nations by accusing South Korea of moving a border marker by several dozen meters. The markers are located in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which is a buffer between the North and South. The DMZ is four-km wide.

Question for the day: Is North Korea a real threat or a “Paper Dragon”?