should we be nervous?

This morning I was reading this article in the NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/world/asia/15korea.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp "North Korea Vows to Restart Plant and Boycott Talks" and the one thing that came to mind while reading this is should I be nervous about N. Korea? This article stresses the seriousness of the issue but it also reads like any other article about any other issue or day, and that makes me somewhat nervous.

I follow the news more than a lot of my peers here at Quinnipiac, but still I am not a news junkie, although I might be if I had more time to sit down and read the paper, but from this article and a few other stories I have read and heard about the issues with N. Korea I am feeling a bit nervous about the situation. I am wondering how the rest of the country is feeling about this. I can be certain that my roommates and a couple of my friends know nothing about this issue but if a nation with a history of being unresponsive to diplomatic relations is building a nuclear facility and refusing to talk with world leaders shouldn't be all be a little bit afraid?

The one short quote from President Obama just says that "Rules must be binding...Violations must be punished." What kind of punishment are we talking about here? I am sure, more hoping than sure, that President Obama has more a of a grasp on this issue than just a comment like this that turned up in the Times, but still I would feel much better if I were to start hearing more about this issue from perhaps the White House itself. I think that the American people need to know more about this issue and whether we should be nervous. I'm sure there are probably a whole bunch of articles and statements out there about it but how about the people who don't follow the news everyday? Shouldn't they be informed too? The more it's talked about the more people will learn about it, so I think there needs to be more in the media about it!