Smokey, not as scary as the cold war mainly because of the throw weight of the opposing sides. NK MIGHT have a couple nukes, but they have no reliable way to get them anywhere. If their missile was going to work, I thiink they would have launched it by now.

China also has nukes, but not many, and their missile tech (up until 10 years ago, Grrr_) was backwards, but they are improving. They still don't have many launch vehicles, however.

We have had many minor wars over the last decade due to the breakup of the CCCP, but I'll take the small wars that resulted rather than sitting in Mannheim waiting for the reds to come through the Fulda gap. (Nothing is more disturbing than knowing that the Army had 2 body bags in stock in Europe for every soldier. One for you, and one for your replacement)