We have a couple new foreign teachers in our school; one from Calgary, and one from a town in Cornwall, England. That makes five Canucks and an Englishman - and yet in about half the classrooms are maps of the USA. I guess maybe it helps that there are seven American military bases in Paju...
In the news, in case you missed it, North Korea has agreed to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in return for a million tonnes of fuel oil, and a promise that it won't get attacked in the foreseeable future. It still gets to keep the nuclear weapons it already has, and any that it can make from the material it has already produced... But it looks as though I won't be getting nuked anytime soon. Probably.
Oh, yeah, btw: the US has almost 6000 active nuclear warheads, as does Russia. North Korea has material for about 4 or 5, maybe. Also, the US remains the only country in the world to actually use a nuke against another country. Not that the North Korean regime isn't psychotic - but I just thought I'd throw that in for a little perspective.
