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Whether it be sad or frightening, for the most part, the stories that have come up over the last few days are stories that people know about. They have probably known about them for a while, and they are probably still reacting to some of the news in their own way. Me rambling on about things now is probably not the best thing to have on the cards.

Instead, I’ll present you with a story or two that is slightly more unusual. It took a bit of digging to discover what is certainly of the “frightening news” camp, all things considered. There is something humorous about it in a way – perhaps it’s the vague air of Team America that hovers over the statement made; but ultimately it is a very real threat that has been voiced – and a threat whose repercussions could be catastrophic. It is never nice to read of such tension when you’re dealing with nuclear weapons…

The article was also quite informative – at least for me, as someone who is not much of a history buff. I never realised that the initial war ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. It wouldn’t come as a big surprise if, among some people over there, there is a feeling that the war never really ended; a feeling that, perhaps, it was just postponed, or placed on hiatus for a little while. Thinking about it like that, then, I would say that “frightening news” is quite an apt category for it.

To finish, then, here is something that’s a little strange to round it off. Whilst there seems to be an abundance of UFO stories in the news recently, here military jets have been seen getting a bit of the action. So did aliens come down and survey our planet for some reason, before drifting eerily up to space? Are the military suspicious? Or, as is the more likely option, is it all just some sort of mundane military procedure? It could have been training, or testing a new piece of technology. Or then again, perhaps not. Who knows?