Wow Did This EVER Scare Me...

If there ever was a time that I kept whining to be totally OUT of Japan, now other clueless people can see why...This was what I was sooo worried about whenever I was over there, and couldn't sleep some nights, couldn't eat other days, would never stop talking about me wanting to get the hell out of there, while others just laughed and wouldn't stop harrassing me about how "nice" it was there...wow, people there sure are stupid....I took a look at this and couldn't have been more relieved that I am forever out of Japan I don't care what anyone else says about it...We were wayyyy too close to Korea to ignore stuff like this..we were considered to be one of the "hot spots" in southeast Asia, and I believed it when I looked at it on the map...here's proof!!! I wasn't just imagining this!!!! I'm soooo thankful to be out of Japan...I don't think that I ever will stop saying that phase...I'm thinking about even getting a t-shirt made with that text on it, that is how relieved I am honestly....( ahhhhh soooooo thrilled to pieces that I got my coloured pink and purple text back!!!!!!!!!! no more boring black!!!!!!!!!!!)


North Korea issues unusually specific threat  (from Yahoo news)

North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes.

The statement, released Monday when programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV by a special report, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Earlier this month, North Korea was unsuccessful in a long-range missile launch, prompting worries that North Korea may conduct another nuclear test. South Korean officials say new satellite images show that North Korea has been digging a tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third atomic test.

According to the Associated Press, the statement from North Korea was unusual in promising something soon and in describing a specific period of time.

The North Korean military threatened to "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style."

For months the North has castigated South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and the conservative administration for insulting their leadership and criticizing a new cruise missile capable of striking anywhere in the south.

South Korean officials responded, urging North Korea to end the threats. "We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk said, according to the Associated Press. "We express deep concern that the North's threats and accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions."

Meanwhile, in a meeting Sunday with a North Korean delegation in Beijing, China's senior official on foreign policy praised the leadership shown by North Korea's new young leader, Kim Jong Un.

The meeting follows the April 13 launch of what the United States called a disguised ballistic missile test by North Korea. The rocket disintegrated minutes after launch.