View From the Bushes

I'm going to get this out of the way early: I woke up at 5:30; you know how it is, "no rest for the wicked." One story that hasn't gotten a lot of coverage is the situation between Japan and North Korea (the AP story I linked to was only picked up by two newspapers, as far as I could tell). Apparently, there's a dispute over the remains of a Japanese national who was kidnapped by the North Koreans.

See, the North Koreans turned over some remains, but they weren't who the Koreans claimed they were. So Japan was going to impose sanctions, but North Korea said they would consider that an act of war. Now they have a tendency to do that a lot, but I still think that when a nuclear power on the verge of collapse starts talking about war that it might merit a little more mention in the mainstream press, wouldn't you?

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Ross