North Korea could be next

It has swept across the other side of the world, starting on 17 December when an angry, unemployed man set fire to himself after police stopped him selling vegetables on the streets. First Tunisia. Then Egypt. And Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Algeria, Morocco and now - most bloodily, it is feared - Libya. Revolution in some; protests or civil uprisings in others. China and North Korea could be next, but I'm sure something that drastic wouldn't be what the Mayans had in mind for the prophesised big apocalypse next year.