(Wong Maye-E/AP)Over the past few days, the United States and North Korea have become locked in nuclear brinkmanship. But it was another tiny island that set the U.S. and North Korea down this path. Few Americans will recall the 1983 invasion of a small Caribbean nation thousands of miles from North Korea. It intensified the animosity between the two countries, sending North Korea on a quest for nuclear weapons to combat what it saw as a looming American threat. North Korea will never abandon its nuclear weapons program, because it believes that without it, nothing would deter an American invasion aimed at regime change.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2017 20:14 UTC