Class 11/30, Hans Rosling and North Korea

Today in class we finished the video with Hans Rosling and his method of comparing countries'. wealth and life expectancy. The video got interrupted quite often because different points were being brought up. For example, in the video Hans talks about the effects of the World Wars on countries across the world. This then brought up the Vietnam War and allies of the U.S. and North Korea. The whole time we were talking about the nuclear missile launches, I honestly was just fearing for my life. Even though Harford County probably wouldn't be North Korea's target, we aren't that far away from Washington D.C. which could be a target which is very scary to think about. Also we discussed how fighting for our allies even if we have to do basically all the fighting due the size of the country, it is beneficiary to us. We also talked about how it wouldn't be wise if we attacked North Korea first because that would cause problems with Russia and China. Plus North Korea would probably attack South Korea. Mr. Schick thinks that North Korea is flaunting their nuclear weapons and having so many missile launches so that other countries take them seriously and acknowledge that they have power and the ability to destroy parts of countries.