SEOUL (Reuters) - When South Korean soldier Kim Kyung-rae heard of North Korea's nuclear test on Tuesday, his first thought was not that war was imminent or that the enemy was closer to a deadly new weapon, but whether the event would interfere with a planned holiday.
Decades of hostile rhetoric and only occasional bellicose action since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War has inured many in the prosperous South to North Korea's growing nuclear threat under its new 30-year old leader Kim Jong-un.
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