Abstract
On October 9th, 2006, seismologists in Russia, Norway and Vienna detected an earth tremor originating in Northeast Asia with a magnitude of around four. North Korea had detonated its first underground nuclear bomb, albeit a weak one, and the international community including the U.S., Europe, and Japan, reacted in shock, calling for sanctions against the Koreans. Indeed, North Korea had shifted the political/power axis, adding another nation to those who already possessed the bomb: Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the U.S.Nonetheless, for most of us in the West, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea appears an abstraction, a rhetorical enemy, and part of what the U.S. government has branded an Enemy Nation, part of the Axis of Evil. We live in an era in which ethnic, national, and political lines are more savagely and crudely drawn, dividing nations, peoples, and entire belief systems into good and evil, civilized and barbaric, savior and terrorist.
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