A very full in-box for the world's geostrategic problem-solvers

I may post about Hugo Chavez later, but, after all, he's dead, so his regime is in at least some degree of flux.

Right this moment, two other problem states have placed themselves back on the front burner among the civilized world's concerns:

North Korea announces that it declares the 1953 armistice null and void and will cut the direct communication line used at the village of Panmunjom.  And threatens to "counter [perceived Western aggression] with diversified nuclear precision strike means of Korean style."

And even Secretary Global Test must now acknowledge that Iran is hair-raisingly close to getting a nuke.