Things you should not even think about...

On my usual running track there is - among others - the diplomatic mission of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Well and since that country had such a prominent role in the dailys, I thought, I should throw in my two pennies worth and illustrate my thoughts with a certain picture. The North Koreans have these strange pictures on their wall and today I wanted to take a picture of them. But I could not. I do not how they managed to get out of their premises to fast - but man they were fast and they immediately forced me to leave. So, there will not be a picture of their strange pictures.

Not only their guards but also North Korea's leaders know their business. Claiming to have nuclear weapons is a powerful statement. It puts the rest of the world in a bad position regardless whether they actually have them or not. Of course, if we were in a movie's world, we would send James Bond, he would flirt around with some nice North Koreans (I just say PDA), he would find the weapons of mass destruction, destroy them and we could live happily ever after.

What would I or you do as a country's leader?
I would treat them as a threatening country as long as it is not proven that there are no nuclear weapons. But wht would I do next? Take preemptive measures? In the worst case it would probably boil down to the question, whether it is "worth" killing people to "save" more people. I shy at those tough decisions. See, I could not become a country's leader - fortunately I do not want to become one.