Cold War 2010?

Even through today's society, many believe nations have settled their arguments, while others do not support that fact. I personally believe the Cold War still has a beating heart throughout the world. Starting with the effects from World War II, America has continuing to develop a strong, honest relationship with Russia today. Perhaps, the signing of the START Treaty by President Obama and President Medvedev may have limited the reference back to Communism and preventing a nuclear war. However, whether nations struggle economically during the modern day of 2010, there is more protesting than any of the citizens in the United States are aware of to this day. Because of this, America remains in a silent war among decades.


Just recently, the New York Times released a new controversial groundbreaking story that has been developing over in the Korean nations the past couple days. Choe Sang-Hun reports that there has been a mysterious sinking of a South Korean warship in the waters splitting the two Koreas. North Korea denied accusations that they even attempted to sink the ship and that "They are using the media to attribute it to us"-KCNA (North Korea's state-run news agency). Well, it seems as if we have seen this before in the Cold War. Although North Korea is not yet to blame for this event, the North and South may still have ongoing tensions resulting from the Cold War itself. Could North Korea still be trying to push the South away? Will the mass killings of 38 sailors and 8 others missing lead to an offensive war for the South? Experts say that South Korea will most likely only fire in the country's own defense to start out with.

As we have observed in the Cold War once before, South Korea would be struggling to find enough weapons to try and hold off the North. Therefore, I believe this could possibly lead into America's role in involvement financially or economically, eventually costing taxes to rise even more at home today. If this story finds that North Korea is the cause for the attack, I believe this will most likely be a repeat and continuation of past events during the Cold War. I want to hear your thoughts below. Do you think nations are personally angered internally by the fact that nuclear testing and war was on hold for much of the Cold War, or are nations trying to intimidate and psych each other out and all of this information is false? Personally, I think nations simply don't trust one another entirely and the Cold War effects are still going on today.