I don't know what everyone is getting wound up about.

There is no Liberal Elite in North Korea and there's no pernicious and treasonous media. I was under the impression that these were the Greatest Threat to Our Way of Life.

Just to pop in some interesting news, the French military atomic energy agency has noted that they calculate the blast to have been less than half a kiloton. If confirmed, this is so small that the test may well have been a failure - or even non-nuclear.

Before we all run around with the headless chickens screaming the end is nigh, it might be worth considering that NK is pulling a rather fast one. (I wonder if we can think of another dictator of recent times that allowed us to believe that he had what he did not....)



I dunno, I go away for a holiday and the world goes titsup. Can't I let you guys get on with anything without supervision?