The two Koreas are ramping up their rhetoric again. South Korea’s president pledged today that his country would retaliate if attacked again. A top North Korean official threatening a “sacred” nuclear war if provoked.

“Sacred?” Did the North Korean communist official use the word “sacred?” Mmmm

The rallying cries and military maneuvers seem designed to muster support in among their respective populations. Still, they are raising fears of an all-out war on a peninsula.

“God, we pray for peace on the Korean Peninsula. In this season when we remember the birth of the Prince of Peace, we pray that his Kingdom would come there, as it is in heaven.”

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