Well, yeah, but I've been figuring for quite some time that Kim had the Bomb. ;-) I am not more scared now because he says he tested one.

The bombs that scare me are the ones in America's and Russia's arsenals. Those are the bombs that can accomplish the destruction of civilization as we know it. America and Russia have that capability. Kim doesn't.

You're right that the bickering can seem like a protective bubble. Actually, there is no protective bubble. There is only the hope that our national leaders don't completely lose their judgement at some point and start firing those missiles at each other.