Real-life Korean drama

As it happens I am in Incheon ( South Korea) not far from Seoul, currently attending a conference organized by the Secretariat of the DMZ ( Demilitarized Zone) International Forum on the topic: Peace on the Korean peninsula and international cooperation in the era of great transformation and economic security. The irony is the conference is taking place against the backdrop of both South Korea and North Korea firing missiles off each other’s coasts for the first time. In all fairness, North Korea has been sabre rattling for weeks indulging in grave provocation. Seoul could not have remained silent after a missile landed on 2 November less than 60 Kms from the southern city of Sokcho. In the middle of all this, North Korea is widely expected to resume testing nuclear weapons taking the security situation of the Korean peninsula to a whole new level of uncertainty. It has been said that the epicenter of geopolitics is the Indo-Pacific. The insecurity emanating from the Korean peninsula along with the situation obtaining in Taiwan strait makes the Indo-Pacific extremely unstable at this point. This will be the subject of this important conference in Incheon over the next couple of days with participants from all over the world. The situation in Indo-Pacific bears scrutiny.