User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Discussion Blog: North Korea/@comment-7379056-20130330185939/@comment-3984166-20130331011659

I think.. at how globalized our world is. Every nations relies on each other, I'd go as far to say that every action a nation does affects the region. I doubt this kind of war would happen. NK is a puppet to China, and China can't go to war with the US, as the US is one of China's trading partners put simply. Diplomatically the world is too tight. We have all these international and supranational organizations, that war seems highly unlikely. All the free trade agreements, defense pacts, etc. Back when WW2 happened, there were barely organizations to stop it, or to issue financial sanctions, and the world wasn't nearly as global as it is not. However, I feel highly that nuclear warheads will eventually get in hands of terrorists, or a bioweapon of some sort. I also think cyber security is very important, our whole financial system could fall if it were hacked. As the majority of the economy goes digital. On a forum I take part of, we discuss technology, science etc, and from what I've seen there's lots of research that shows how vunerable our entire web is. Think about it, or whole lives rely so heavily on this amazing network called the internet. It's astonishing, its a gigantic web that connects everything together ( like a global brain, nervous system ) and if hackers backed by a country hacked into the new york stock exchagne or NASDAQ, who knows what would happen! Or flight control, searches, etc.