It's told that '北' is a Kan-character to properly describe this year.
Of course, this is a camouflage, actually, North Korea (北朝鮮) is not so menacing.
Because North Korea is in a moribund state.
In fact, other meanings are implicated in this '北' .
北 is pronounced 'kita' in Japanese. This 'kita' has double-meaning, namely, one (北) means the north of 'four' azimuths, another (来た) means that it has come.
From now, the inter-national relation among respective countries including Japan will remarkably change. USA and Russia will finally be settled on an allied relation.
