Armageddon by Accident Trump and Kim’s brinkmanship raises the danger of an accidental conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

BY DAN DE LUCE, JENNA MCLAUGHLIN, ELIAS GROLL

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Rising tensions between North Korea and the United States have sparked fresh concerns inside and outside the Pentagon that a potential miscalculation — driven by heated rhetoric or technical mistakes — could lead to an accidental conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

The danger of an inadvertent clash is exacerbated by two impulsive nuclear-armed leaders, who have publicly traded threats, and a volatile mismatch between the United States’ overwhelming military superiority and an isolated regime in Pyongyang.