The DoD has sent six of the overpriced, goofy bombers known as the F-117's to South Korea to play in one of the annual military exercises there. Well, there's nothing like irritating a paranoid, insecure, totalitarian madman with a half-assed over-publicized weapons system that will convince him that we are about to bomb him/his nuclear facilites.

The North Korean air defenses are pretty good, and the 117 can very likely defeat them, but it carries only a very small bomb load, more useful for scaring an opposition force with just a couple of precision guided bombs, than inflicting massive damage. Is that a bad thing? No, but it's a serious destablizer in any balance-of-power equation. And I think that North K's attempts to achieve some sort of parity to gain political advantage by brinksmanship is going to be tossed out by the rampant paranoia of the leadership there in favor of something in the not-so-smart category.

Moderation has never been a virtue there, no reason to expect it now. Look for them to do something stupid, especially if any war begins in Iraq.