Well, we all probably know what’s happening. North Korea just launched their second nuke test, it fared a bit better than their first one, and all the big nations are in alarm mode at this time. Russia and China gave North Korea strong criticisms and said that they’re absolutely opposed to this. Meanwhile, Obama has his hands full, again. What difficult times it must be for him.

Apparently the real worry is not that North Korea might launch nukes at other countries, but that they’ll sell nuke material on the black market i.e. open a way for terrorists to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction. This crisis is a bit like global warming, just not having gathered enough media attention. Well, the media is all over it, but in most people’s view, it’s probably not an urgent issue, at least it’s not an issue that would have any impacts on their lives.

And this is what’s scary about it. North Korea seems a bit pissed off at the fact that all other countries are pissed off at it. They’ve launched two missile test in response to the world’s criticisms, signifying that they’re not going to cave into the world’s demands, and Obama - heck, anyone - would face the tough problem of how to get them to listen. If they don’t, well, it could very well lead to warfare as it would just be a matter of time, given that North Korea’s attitude doesn’t change. How troublesome.

Meanwhile, all these events happening also once again brought up the question of nuclear weapons. It’s a simple question of control, but not an easy question to answer. The thing with control is that it requires authority, and authority are human, and humans are not absolute, so the control can never be flawless. No flawless control means there’s always the possibility that control will be lost. And an event of any nonzero possibility will happen if you run the experiment long enough. What would happen then? A scary thought.

And to make matters worse, this is one of the world’s concerns that the average person can do nothing about. I guess all we can do is to lay back, watch history, and hope for a good ending at least for the foreseeable future.