Am currently keeping an eye on this developing summit between North and South Korea. One must smile and hope for the best of situations at all times, and grab at the potential good news when the rest of the world seems to be imploding upon itself.


Well, you never know. Maybe this summit will lead to negotiations and possible reconciliations between the Koreas, and will be a beacon of hope for everyone idealistically wishing world peace were actually possible, and can be a model, however foolishly, for the rest of the warring nations to follow (ha, yeah right).

Is Chairman Kim seriously interested in peace? What are the motives on each side? What could be gained? What might be lost?


"It is up to us whether we can play a leading role in establishing a new order of peace in Northeast Asia," [South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun] told a dinner hosted by Kim Yong-Nam.

So maybe my idea isn't so far-fetched. Maybe not the Middle East, but certainly parts of Asia... It's a "start." Not that peace is a path leading to a pot of gold and rainbows and eternal bliss. Creatures of war, we are, but since it is our nature, what can we do but to fight? Peace happens in some places but not in others, and then the world changes and the cycles shift, and peace shifts too. Thus is the world.