With US resources stretched thin, North Korea is pounding the war drums

"The situation on the Korean peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950," wrote noted North Korea researchers Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker this month in an attention-grabbing piece on the 38 North site. "That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war." So will there be war on the Korean peninsula soon? There certainly is war talk in the North Korean capital. Kim Jong Un sounded especially belligerent in December at the Ninth Enlarged Plenum…