While I admit I don’t recall the North Koreans specifically making noise specifically about tearing up the armistice in recent memory, but I have to admit that I’m rather exasperated that the DPRK’s saber rattling gets as much press as it does.

Granted, when a nation-state starts issuing threats of war, it is newsworthy. On the other hand, Kim Jong Il’s Glorious People’s Unicorn Fantasy Playland does this every week. The ultraparanoid DPRK sees everything that happens outside its borders as a “warlike act”, “hostile”, or otherwise unwarranted belligerency that their army is supposedly poised to smash at a moment’s notice. Ho hum. An American President could mention he’s switching his morning routine by putting his pants on his right leg first instead of his left, and North Korea would pitch a hissy fit over it.

I’m not saying that they should be ignored militarily—U.S. and South Korean forces should definitely be on constant alert—but I’m tired of the press treating North Korean tantrums as politically meaningful. In that vein, just once I’d like to see the President, Secretary of State, or some foreign equivalent stand up in response to the latest bluster from Pyongyang and say “whatever, man. Either throw down or shut the fuck up. Seriously.”

I know I haven’t been posting nearly as prolifically as I once did, and certainly these last three weeks or so have been something of a particular nadir (thanks to house renovations, the dojo, and the thrice-cursed vortex of time men know as Facebook), but this week it will sink to an all-time low of zero posts; I’ve got the week off and am heading out with the family to Disneyland. Catch you all on the flip side, at which time I promise to be a little more verbose.

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