Satyriasis,
The question Jax asked above was which one of the two nations, Iran or North Korea, was more worrisome, not if North Korea would invade South Korea (or any other country).
As the governments of both countries have behaved in ways which might worry reasonable people, it seems to be a fair question.
For example, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "
a myth". There are many people – including me - who consider comments denying well documented history to indicate an adherence to ideals which, coming from someone who would be in a position to initiate war, to be somewhat worrisome.
In
1988 The North Korean government launched a two-stage ballistic missile over Japan. The act is reminiscent of a warship firing its cannon across the bows of another vessel; stop or be destroyed. There are many people – the Japanese (among others) come to mind here - who consider behavior of this nature somewhat worrisome.
Of these two worrisome countries, North Korea worries me more as it has a documented past of bellicose behavior, while Iran has engaged in warfare only when attacked.
While your unusual punctuation indicates to me an emphatic belief in the validity of your vision of the future, there are many people - the sons and the daughters of the
American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who were killed by North Koreans during the Korean War might be examples – who consider the future to be less clear or obvious. For those people of the West, as well as the hundreds of millions of Asians who live sufficiently close to the launch sites of the
Taepodong-2 missile (6,000 km) to be potential targets, I’m sure you can understand why they may be less convinced of the benign intentions of
Kim Jong-il et al.
Excuse me for responding to the question you asked Coastie above, but I do think that someone who plans, finances, and praises the murder of thousands of people is a bad man. So, yes, I do – as do many people – think that Osama bin Laden is a bad man.