Josh Peck

NEW YORK -- Baby-faced 16-year-old Eric Kurn climbed onto the comedy club stage, gave the packed room a look of wide-eyed cluelessness and launched into his deadpan bit: "I think it's time I had a girlfriend. ... There's just one little problem. None of the girls I know think it's time I had a girlfriend." "Even some of the girls I don't know yet agree with that," the redhead went on like a teenage Rodney Dangerfield, to cascades of laughter. With the afternoon crowd of...

Once or twice a year, North Korea tests a missile (often ineffectively) or says something inflammatory, causing America and the media to experience a brief spasm of worry over the intentions of the mysterious, hermitic country. I'm half Korean, and while that definitely doesn't make me an expert on North Korea, these concerns about North Korea and whether they'll attack the U.S. or South Korea always strike me as being pretty ridiculous. After all, North Korea is an incredibly poor ...