British Lieutenant General Andrew Harrison, Deputy Commander of United Nations Command, cites tensions from North Korean landmines and other events (often occurring in or near the Korean DMZ, history shows). We imagine Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs also caused the general some restless nights.
“I never know quite what I’m going to be dealing with in the morning when the phone goes or in the middle of the night when the phone goes…And you never know what is going to be a simple, tactical problem to solve, and what is something that is going to be of strategic importance that could explode, either literally or in the media context, into a regional, national or global issue,” General Harrison told IForces Net. Read the report here.