It’s a serious subject, of course, but there’s something absurdly surreal about the state postponing its planned nuclear-attack air raid testing because the counties can’t quite deal. Uh, North Korea, just hold off attacking for now.

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency had wanted to test the attack warning sirens on Nov. 1, part of a preparedness plan for the unlikely event of a North Korean launch. But testing is now postponed indefinitely, due to concerns from neighbor island counties about the potential of fear, panic and confusion that the wailing might create.

Nuclear threat? Hydrogen bomb? Nah, no worry, brah.

Nonprofits should check their books

The case of a longtime employee’s alleged theft of a whopping $5.7 million from an Oahu nonprofit should prompt organizations with bank accounts of all sizes to double-check protections in place against embezzlement. A routine audit of 2016 records at The Arc in Hawaii, which helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and operates three adult day care centers, turned up discrepancies that uncovered a senior accountant’s apparent bilking of the operation over the span of a decade. A grand jury has returned an indictment charging the former employee with multiple counts of theft as well as computer fraud and money laundering.