Japan joins ugly contest with tsunami of money – Telegraph

Japan joins ugly contest with tsunami of money – Telegraph

Kim Jong-un’s regime has since been threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Pyongyang’s enemies, the recently installed “supreme leader” clumsily attempting to rally the moribund population of one of the world’s most secretive states.

A fortnight ago, North Korea pulled workers from an industrial complex operated jointly with South Korea, in a move seen as deliberate provocation.

What with this return to Cold War hostilities, then, Seoul is presumably deeply concerned about the aggressive antics of its Northern nemesis?

South Korea seems fixated, though, less on a theoretical nuclear war than on an actual financial war – not with nasty North Korea, but with Japan, a fellow Western-ally.