Oct 9, via the BBC, buried down at the bottom of the toothless UN sanctions imposed on North Korea:
Bans export of luxury goods to North Korea
I hear scuttlebutt that the dictator with the bad hair has a wife with a well-developed fashion sense.
Today, I see N Korea ‘not planning more tests’
Hmmm.
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Biologist, lifelong denizen of academe, science fiction writer, world-class procrastinator, and proudly lazy.
"What is the difference between a realist and a dreamer? The realist thinks that someday a UFO will come down and hover over the UN building, and that the aliens will come out of the UFO and offer to share their technology and solve all our world's problems.
The dreamer thinks maybe we can get our act together and do it ourselves."
Russian joke [It's a joke?] cited in William K. Hartmann, A Traveler's Guide to Mars.