The View From Over Here

This article jibes with the opinions of many of my Korean friends and students -- they're a lot more worried about Trump than they are North Korea:

"Life continues as normal, however hysterical the rhetoric from over the border. As a Korean co-worker of mine recently put it: 'We’ve been at war for ages; it’s just war. We still have to work, the same as usual.'

Thus, even after the testing of Kim Jong-un’s hydrogen bomb (with 10 times the power of the nuclear bombs that decimated Japanese cities in 1945), the question on everyone’s lips here was whether or not the rapper Hangzoo deserved his Show Me the Money victory, rather than whether Kim’s new weapon posed any real threat to the southerly end of the Korean peninsula."

Kim Jong-un is many horrible things, but at bottom he remains what political scientists call a "rational actor."

Trump is not.