PIxie Dust

What Could Go Wrong?

Wow.  Let's cast all the pixie dust we can find into the air.  Magic is what's happening; magic is what we need.  North Korea is going to join with South Korea as One Team in the forthcoming Winter Olympics.

In addition to marching together under the unified flag, South Korea will send some of its athletes to train at a ski resort in North Korea and attend some kind of cultural event. South and North Korea will also jointly form a women’s ice hockey team. North Korea is also sending 230 cheerleaders to the Olympics. Even more bizarre, according to The New York Times, “negotiators agreed that supporters of both Koreas would root together for athletes for both countries.”  [The Federalist]

What could possibly go wrong?  What's to lose?

Well, anything is possible.  Here's a scenario that would be well within reasonable expectations:

1.  Some of the South Korean athletes sent to train at the North Korean ski resort "defect" to the North.

2.  Some of the South Korean team members of the joint women's ice hockey team disappear, and then suddenly reappear in North Korea.

All the "missing" South Koreans then gather together for a public TV presentation in which they announce their defections to the North and their shared belief that South Korea ought to surrender to North Korea.  Then, they disappear into the ether.

In fact, they end up in the Gulag, never to be see again.

Will this actually happen?  Who knows.  But who amongst us would be able to affirm without doubt that it would never happen.  Who would be willing to argue that such a scenario would be no more credible than proposing the moon is made of green cheese.