Amid the current inter-Korean “crisis”, a common theme in Western reporting has been the surprising lack of an actual “crisis mentality” among ordinary South Koreans. As serious as the threats emanating from the North may appear, the reality is that even the so-called “experts” know very little at all about how the crisis might develop and what really lies behind the rhetoric. South Koreans know this all too well as they have been here before to varying degrees, and are perhaps wiser in dispensing  certainty or even speculation on anything that might happen. It is also likely that many