User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/World Cup?/@comment-2004850-20100616023655

"Pro-anyone other than NK is more likely" <-- Pretty much this.

I don't think it'd be WWIII. More like 'North Korea vs. the World' or 'North Korea vs...Everyone Else'. South Korea has much better relationships with the West and probably Asia and other continents. North Korea rarely interacts with anybody it seems, and randomly comes out with nuclear weapon hints. I don't think this sits well with most, especially the appeasement aspect...

As for the pact, we'd probably jump in to help South Korea regardless.

And don't worry about the "That's a country?!" reactions. I shamefully will admit that only today I learned that Ivory Coast is, in fact, a country. Or Côte d'Ivoire, which I can't for the life of me pronounce. Uh, but, the rest of them I knew!