World: North Korea is now threatening to re-start its mothballed nuclear reactor. In a continuing escalation of rhetoric, South Korea’s first woman president Park Geun-hye said her country would strike back quickly against any attack by North Korea. The South Korean military has given local units permission to act on their own rather than wait for guidance from Seoul. The US is moving an Aegis Class guided missile cruiser to the area and has deployed stealth fighters to take part in spring military exercises. Despite verbal posturing, US authorities say they don’t see North Korea’s million-man army moving to actually mobilize for war.

National: Prosecutors say they want the death penalty for the accused Colorado theater shooter. “For James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” District Attorney George Brauchler told the court. Lawyers for Holmes revealed last week they were willing to offer a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison, but the DA didn’t take it. Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 in an Aurora movie theater last July.

• Caroline Kennedy is being vetted to become the US Ambassador to Japan, several news outlets report. She’s been a big supporter of President Obama and briefly toyed with running for Senate when Hillary Clinton departed to become Secretary of State.

Alphabet Soup: ABC News has taken correspondent Byron Pitts from CBS to be an anchor and national correspondent. He was a part-timer at  “60 Minutes”, which is now left with an all-white starting lineup.

Reality: Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show “Buckwild” has been found dead in a truck with two other men in West Virginia. The three may have asphyxiated with the truck and its tailpipe stuck in mud. The show has been described as a “redneck Jersey Shore”.

Less Glee:  Cory Monteith, one of the stars of the television series “Glee”, has checked into rehab for substance abuse. The 30-year-old actor will be singing the 12 steps while he misses the last two episodes of the season.

Pedigree Degree: A woman whose son is a Princeton junior stirred a hornet’s nest with a letter to the college paper suggesting that undergraduate women should find a Princeton man to marry. Susan Patton, Princeton class of 1977 wrote, “For most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of men who are worthy of you.” She wrote, “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate.” Patton is divorced and says of her ex, “He went to a school of almost no name recognition.”

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