. . . but of what? Headline on the WCCO site:

“Report: North Korea Serious About Border Shutdown” 

A helpful sidebar gives the related stories:

North Korea Nixes Samples From Nuke Facilities (11/12/2008)

North Korea To Halt Border Crossings With South (11/12/2008) 

North Korea Threatens To Turn South Into ‘Debris’ (10/28/2008)

There’s a pattern here, but it would take a lifetime of work at State or the CIA, sifting through the strange, oblique clues that waft from Norkland, to figure it out.  

Our motto for the next few years: nothing should come as a surprise, even the fact that we’re surprised by whatever comes.  Maybe especially the fact that we’re surprised.