North Korean nuclear test tests the new and clear air out there

Ethan Switch - Monday, 9 October, 2006 - 23:15:58 - print it raw

Hands over the face, children, it's time for some old school freak mutant bombs to rev up again. Remember to tuck in those knees under your chin as you run under those desks and bundle up the loose strings. Strings will be the future of the past in a post-scramble civilization.

North Korea's confirmed, but unseen, though solidly felt, underground nuclear test sets off the edge on powers and nations around the globe. So close neighbours and ally China are really on the soup cup.

Focus keeps shifting on the lazy eye gaze of the United States. Out once for Osama bin Laden, then onto Saddam Hussein, it was always a little out in the cold for those two of Fidel Castro and Kim Jong-il.

Then the bearded one falls ill and passed Cuban duties temporarily to his brother while fighting off rumours of his death. Not one to let the wing lay fallow for far too long with out a one-two red punch, the Asian side of the commie coin comes to the fore.

Led by Jong-il, it's all one with the furniture listening closely to the news. Those manufacturing and supplying wooden desks with room below for crouching, pouching the eager wallets and bonds. Roaches will walk the earth long after the lights are turned off.

After all, if it comes to clear that sanctions set for the Communist state won't defeat the trials, hiding under the desks will surely be of a major stumbling block. Ikea stocks on option?

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