Jumping on the Tsunami Bandwagon

It appears the Tsunami is back, sooner than we expected. I don't know if you've seen the images of the waves buffeting the shores of Sumatra, but I found it fascinating that Lao people, who have no coastline to speak of, though most of them live within flood distance of the Mekong river, were so captivated by the images of the marauding sea.

Stranger still is the above image taken from the 'Tsunami Victims' wall at the end of Khao San road in Bangkok. The tally lists just three South Koreans as missing; and stranger still is that there was actually a North Korean taken by the tide as well....

One wonders what this poor communist straggler was doing there - was this person with the South Koreans? Or possibly spying on them? Or just having a vacation like all the thousands of people from decadent capitalist nations. Surely the winter in North Korea is something worth escaping from for a little respite on the southern beaches of Thailand.

One more level of weirdness removed is that Indonesia falls into the 'one person missing in Thailand' column. How odd that a neighboring country only had one of its citizens in the path of the wave....of course there might have been hundreds of other Indonesians who did not go missing, and the same could be said for North Koreans...but since Koreans of any flag are rarely, if ever, alone, then what of the other, non-perished Koreans? How many were they in total?...