Updated Apr.2,2008 10:22 KST

Noises Off
While South Koreans stroll casually through Seoul, a North Korean military official tells leader Kim Jong-il on cell phone, ¡°Chairman, I¡¯m going crazy. They¡¯re not paying us one bit of attention.¡±

North Korea has been trying to ratchet up tensions with the South recently, launching missiles over the West Sea, threatening to reduce South Korea to ashes at the slightest provocation and branding President Lee Myung-bak a ¡®traitor.¡¯