Well, I was wrong

So the NORKs didn’t try to rain on Obama’s inauguration.   The Raptors at Gunsan must have scared them straight, hahaha.

Still, the locals recently appointed some hard-liner to take on the North Koreans (No more Sunshine Policy), and the North Koreans are in an unstable state given that Dear Leader appears to be on his last legs.

Nothing will likely happen except for a lot of silly bluster and maybe the odd skirmish.  The South Koreans have historically exercised a huge degree of restraint with the North, and it would take something extremely major for the South to get drawn into a fight.

It’ll be interesting how things go in 2009.  United States Forces Korea is in the process of re-defining its role in the ROK to assume more of a support role, with the South Koreans basically taking the lead role.  I support this.  The Koreans have historically been a colonized people, and it would be good for their national psyche and sense of confidence not to have to take a subordinate role to a foreign power in the defense of their own country.  It’s their country, they have a very advanced and competent military that is more than capable of keeping the impoverished North at bay, and they should defend it themselves.

Besides, if the NORKs ever invaded (which they can’t because they don’t have any gas and their equipment is broken down), they’d never even make it past the McDonalds in Itaewon before supporting US forces arrived on scene from Japan and elsewhere… whooo-raahhh!!!!

In flightsim news, the Brit voice set for the MD-11 is 99.9 percent done.  Eurozone is almost done.

Really