Hey, look at me! I'm pretty too!

File this under: "Hey, look at me! I'm pretty too!"

North Korea announces it will "in the future" conduct a nuclear test. It's got to be hard for the North Koreans, to have the Iranians getting all the press these days. Geesh - Dear Leader (no shit - this is what he is called) Kim Jong-il wasn't even invited to speak at the recent gathering of Despots at the U.N. This is likely due to the invitation committee knowing North Korea is not in possession of a working airplane with which Dear Leader might be transported.

Actually, the real reason he never goes anywhere is more simple:

Like his father, he has a profound fear of flying, and has always traveled by private armoured train for state visits to Russia and China. -- Wikipedia

So - to the point of the story - can the North Koreans actually detonate a nuclear weapon? Yes - but, if it's to be anything like the quality of their typical industrial endeavors, it will explode as a dirty radiological weapon (an unitended fizzle) which will kill all involved with the test and contaminate even more of their dwindling arable land.

To which I say - GO FOR IT!