South Korea loses a former president, and North Korea celebrates...

...by blowing up a nuke.

Surely everybody has been paying attention to the news over the last few days. It's been a bad 5 days for South Korea, and for the whole world really, so I figured I'd give you some news from the front lines.

First of all, don't worry at all about North Korea. Nobody is in the least bit worried. Their country is a joke, and nobody is scared of them at all, just really annoyed. Life is carrying on here like nothing has happened. Some people in Seoul are protesting by burning NoKo flags and such, but that's about it. To be honest, they care a lot more about the fact that their former president committed suicide. They're actually really torn up about it. One of my drinking buddy co-workers didn't come out with the rest of the teaching staff on Monday because he said he was really sad and in no mood for a celebration (the celebration was for sports day, which our school had on Monday).

In addition, NoKo's nukes are not even as powerful as the ones dropped on Japan during WWII. In other words, they are more than 60 years behind the times. And their delivery systems are unreliable.

With this newest round of testing, NoKo has pissed off all of the few friends they had, namely China. China is really getting mad at Kim Jong Il for being stupid, and they are becoming less and less likely to protect North Korea from the UN security council.

All in all, I'm not real sure what's going to come of all this, but I'm not worried at all. NoKo knows that if it so much as looks at South Korea funny, the U.S. and Japan will squash it like a bug, so I'm sure they have no intention of causing trouble. Most likely they are just going to head back to the six party talks and demand more things in exchange for dismantling their nuke program, and all this will happen again in a year or two.