North Korea sound like it's ready to blow some shit up...unfortunately.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10752746
Yeah. That's why this should've been wrapped up back in 50's.
I do wonder what China will do...the whole "New Century's Bad Guy" vibe aside, I don't see Chinese just letting North Korea do what hey please...they're not as crazy. A nuclear war on Korean Peninsula will to a degree impact China as well...assuming of course, that it won't end the world as we know it first.
But then again, people had done stupider things before.
Also, Middle East was, is and will forever be one big bloodbath until scorched and made uninhabitable. I don't see that changing anytime soon, unless somewhere there will be a massive shift in politics/revolution (Iran, for example).