Master of the Mixed Message: North Korea

      After shutting off contact with South Korea and threatening the West, North Korea has suddenly decided to send many of its soldiers to within sight of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. These soldiers then proceeded to help the farmers dig and plant the spring crops in the midst of barbed wire and tank traps.
      Understandably, South Korean soldiers are uneasy and the border zones are closed to tourists. At the same time, North Korea also stopped all access to the factory park jointly run between the two Koreas. In a typically North Korean move, South Korea has threatened "grave measures" if North Korea refuses talks to reopen the park.
      North Korea, in response, has threatened nuclear war. It's recent missile and weapon tests are indications of its ability to do so, if only passably and in a suicidal effort.