I wasn't the only one is Seoul this weekend

President Obama was in Seoul as well, to meet with Korean president Lee Myung bak and tour the DMZ ahead of the Nuclear Summit in Seoul this week. It's the second such summit and it's goal is an admirable one of creating a nuclear free world and keeping such dangerous material out of the hands of religious nutjobs and countries that might actually use them. On that note the choice of locations is hardly a coincidence. North Korea, after agreeing to suspend nuclear activity in exchange for food has now decided to test a satellite missile for its space program. Now first off, a north Korean space program? really? The Russians need western billionnaires to spend millions of US dollars to book passage with them just to keep their program afloat and they have one of the most advanced space programs on earth and are still a major global economy. While the idea of New Pyongyang on the moon may appeal to Hungry Hungry Kimmo the idea that north Korea can finance and maintain a space program (something the US can't seem to do these days) is actually borderline comical. The idea that the north needs a satellite is also ridiculous. For what? Their non-existent cell phones and satellite TV? It's obvious that to anyone with two IQ points to rub together that this is an attempt to test a missile that they want to strap a nuke to, and that is concerning for the rest of us.

I'll do a proper nuclear summit blog after it happens, but for now Obama is here and so too are 54 world leaders including all the UN security council members and the G20 nations.