South Korea’s Financial Security Institute has told the world that North Korea is behind some of the most vicious cyber scandals of recent times, including attacks on online poker and gambling businesses.

In a few weeks time, I jump on a jet plane to spend the next five months in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I am excited. Well, I was, before the North Korean mini dictator, Kim Jong-un, declared that his nukes could blow the crap out of the US.

In preparation, I listened to Sam Harris interview the Black Hawk Down author, Mark Bowden, about the options available to the world now we have a complete fruitcake in possession of a planet killer.

I learned how the US could lose millions of lives in a strike.