Mutually Assured Destruction

America and North Korea are technically still at war. It has been boiled down from a live conflict that cost tens of thousands of lives in the 1950's to your basic post cold war nuclear stand off mine fields for borders kind of thing. The acronym for a nuclear stand off is M.A.D {see title}. The principle doesn't work if one of the actors in this stalemate actually is mad which is not good news considering that the North Korean President Kim Jong I11 boasts of retiring from golf after getting a hole in one for every hole on his first round. Now that's what I call crazy golf. On top of this the old cold war conflict is heating up again. Hilary Clinton fired a back hander across the bows at a meeting of foreign ministers in Thailand in response to recent nuclear testing from North Korea.

" Maybe it's... the experience that I've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention - don't give it to them, they don't deserve it, they are acting out". she said.

If she seems blase about another batch of nuclear bombs in the world remember her nation do have over ten thousand of them, Naturally the North Korean ministry of insults had to strike back.

"Her words suggest that she is by no means intelligent. We cannot but regard Mrs Clinton as a funny lady....... Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.

If the boys at the insult ministry seem to be losing their touch remember they are working to tough quotas on a daily basis. Specifically on the South Korean President, Lee Myung Bak. A report by the Seoul Government recorded that Mr Lee was personally insulted by Pyongyang 1,705 times from the start of the year to June 22: an average of 9.9 times a day compared with 7.9 times daily last year.

The most interesting aspect of this story is that the South Koreans have been recording all these insults and compiling a report on the subject. Why? and what will happen when they get 2000 is Lee Myung Bak finally going to break down and cry. He has feelings you know.