North Korea and South Korea Are...

...playing 'Chicken'. When I was a teenager, there were these macho like guys who would play this game where two guys would drive towards each other in their cars, at a high rate of speed. The first guy to swerve out of the way was the 'Chicken'.

Sometimes neither one would swerve and both would die instantly in a head on collision. In the case of these Korea's, a lot more people will die than just two, if no one 'chickens out.'