My $0.02.

I am a little worried today with all of the talk about the testing of nuclear weapons in North Korea. It's scary to know that there are real nuclear weapons out there that aren't just rotting in some storage unit as I would like to think any remaining weapons would be. Granted that's me living in a little protective happy bubble, but my bubble is much better than living in fear all of the time.
I'm also worried because I know people in Korea and the country is important to me. I don't want to see it ravaged like Iraq just was. I understand that North Korea is a separate country from South Korea, but they share a wee little border, and a wee little peninsula. Mostly I am worried about G. Dub-ya's ability to understand that there is a difference. As it is now my cousin Sue can’t visit me because she is Korean, and needs a visa to come to California, even though she is from SOUTH Korea, and her passport can collaborate this. So can he see that there is a difference?
This quote from that article worries me the most:
"“What it tells you is that we started at the wrong end of the ‘axis of evil,’ ” former Senator Sam Nunn, the Georgia Democrat who has spent his post-Congressional career trying to halt a new age of proliferation, said in an interview. “We started with the least dangerous of the countries, Iraq, and we knew it at the time. And now we have to deal with that.”"
So if Bushy-busherkins decides to take on another pet project, Anile a Nation 2, what will happen to South Korea? It's already full of American Army bases, already fully rooted in Korean society. How will the South Koreans react? While I was there I got the distinct feeling of frustration from both Americans and Koreans. The American army boys didn't like being there, away from home in a country that was tired of having them. The Koreans were exasperated with them, it was like they wanted to be able to take charge of their own country, it had been 50 years since the Korean War, and the Americans are still there. Now it I fear that there will be more Americans sent in and South Korea will lose even more of its identity to them. Furthermore what will happen if GWB decides to start another war? South Korea is a beautiful country. Lush, green and even. Yes, even, in the mountains all of the trees are the same height. The whole country was obliterated 50 years ago, so all of the growth is the same age, makes for breath taking views, but to me, they were melancholy. Now what? Will it all happen again?
I also wonder about the state of the International World. Would there be so much unrest if the US wasn't such a presence? The analogy of the US being the schoolyard bully is trite, but appropriate. I think that the US needs to stop being the bus stop monitor and take care of its own. I think that the world needs a modern day Leauge of Nations. Not the United Nations, something stronger with a more narrow focus, focusing on international threats, like this one. It seems that the United Nations is mired in a lot of bureaucratic stuff a lot of the time. The New League could assemble quickly and asses and react just as quickly. It seems the world is doing that informally anyhow, why not formalize it? Everyone is agreeing on sanctions to North Korea, and many countries are talking to each other to confirm that they are all doing it.
Really I am worried for South Korea. I don't want them to suffer. I don't want Korea* to end up like Iraq.


*When I say Korea, I mean South Korea, when I talk of North Korea, I specify North Korea. I love it when I talk about having lived in Korea and the occasional person asks, “North or South?”