Al Jazeera
August 23, 2017
By Jim Walsh
This week, the United States and its ally South Korea began large-scale military exercises, and North Korea responded by threatening "merciless retaliation". This follows Pyongyang's recent back-and-forth over whether to strike Guam and President Trump's warning that North Korea was facing a future of "fire and fury".
Not surprisingly, people are a little worried. I received an email from an old high school friend. We had not corresponded in a while. The email comprised two words: "Save us"