When a South Korean warship recently sank in the Yellow Sea, suspicions immediately turned to North Korea. It now appears that Pyongyang was not involved. But the war scare should remind officials in Seoul that the Korean Peninsula still remains threatened.
The North has long used brinkmanship as a negotiating technique. Pyongyang responded to recent joint maneuvers between the U.S. and South Korean forces with its usual rhetorical threats.
Ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire last November around their ill-defined sea boundary in the Yellow Sea.
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