Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 52 escalate tensions 51 heightening tensions 50 escalating tensions 48 exacerbate tensions 47 inflaming 47 stoke tensions 46 heightened tensions 46 tensions 46 heighten tensions 46 provoking 45 stoked tensions 45 inflame tensions 45 defusing tensions 44 ethnic tensions 43 aggravate tensions 43 fomenting 43 antagonizing 43 destabilizing 42 provocations 42 restive 41 inflamed tensions 41 heightened tension 40 ease tensions 40 easing tensions 40 fomenting unrest 40 defuse tensions 40 deliberate provocation 40 saber rattling 40 fomenting violence 40 bellicose rhetoric 40 stoking 40 Cheonan warship 40 nuclear ambitions 39 sectarian tensions 39 Muslim sects 39 tensions flared 39 bloodshed 39 destabilize 39 diplomatic spat 39 breakaway regions 39 mutual recriminations 38 appeasing 38 foment unrest 38 ethnically 38 violent clashes 38 torpedoing 38 disarmament talks 38 alienating 38 Tensions 38 Ethnic tensions 38 Mrs Snoop Dogg 38 shaky truce 38 disputed islands 38 angering 38 bitterly divided 38 yuan artificially 37 imposing sanctions 37 clashes 37 inflammatory rhetoric 37 increasingly assertive 37 territorial dispute 37 mend ties 37 de facto independence 37 provocation 37 missile launches 37 ethnic 37 ethnically divided 37 Korean peninsula 37 Korean torpedo 37 divided peninsula 37 normalizing ties 37 closest ally 37 South Korean warship 37 Muslim Uighurs 37 Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa 37 deepening rift 37 Yellow Sea 37 simmering tensions 37 undermining 37 inciting violence 36 contaminating 36 Protests erupted 36 pressuring 36 wartime aggression 36 Sporadic clashes 36 inciting 36 breakaway republics 36 communal tension 36 trawler captain 36 Muslim separatists 36 permanent veto wielding 36 predominantly Shi'ite 36 North Korea 36 veto wielding 36 internal rifts 36 feuding 36 hardline 35 al Maliki Shiite 35 alienate 35 stoking inflation 35 hardliners