Middle East Front Opens For The Koreas

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By Yong Kwon

It is a rare occasion to see relative calm over the Korean Peninsula; for the first time since the sinking of the South Korean corvette the Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, the world's attention has shifted away from the precarious relationship between the Koreas to the chaos in the Middle East and Libya.

However, news agencies and analysts around the world appear to have missed the fact that both Koreas remain deeply involved in these areas of conflict.

If the ruling regimes in Damascus and Tripoli survive the current instability, their ties to North Korea will deepen as they join Pyongyang in the disreputable club of pariah states.

As a consequence, Israel and South Korea will bolster their nascent relationship to combat the threat posed by the unholy alliance of rogue states. In a sense, the international community faces the possibility of reviving the Cold War division between the "client states" of the former bipolar world, only with an unprecedented amount of bilateral cooperation between the respective camps and the collective potential for destruction.

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