Two wars at once?

[WarBlade]

Yeah, what as a surprise that came as. I mean, there has not been any threatening of various forms, or pressure put on them and so on(sorry for not finding good english words) versus North Korea (I am NOT defending them here as a country or for they actions, mind you), especially not by US. So yeah that came totally out of the blue no? Gee. Talk about pulling something out of total context.

Not really. There has been a massive contingent US Marines reinforcing South Korea for a long time now. One of the jobs on the duty roster is to stand there with binoculars staring at North Koreans who likewise stand there gazing back over no-mans land, each side making sure that the the isn't up to something.

See as Occi has pointed out a few times recently, the war between the north and south was never officially ended so the two sides were locked in a perpetual cease fire.

Now imagine your job is to sit there with gun and binoculars at hand thinking of US Marines as "the enemy", a situation that has persisted for decades. By now it's natural for them to consider Americans as potential attackers and natural to keep the US armed forces high on the list of priority targets.