The chilling news of North Korea's artillery attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island is a serious escalation of an already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula and a major challenge to regional stability. It comes on the heels of the latest revelation about North Korea's nuclear program: that the Communist regime had secretly built a stunningly modern nuclear facility to enrich uranium. That news alone would likely have been enough to increase diplomatic pressure on China - the only world power with real leverage over Pyongyang - to rein in its sociopathic neighbor.
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