[north korea] the inevitability of it all

North Korea's was underground but the result was similar

The Telegraph* called it this act of madness by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. It’s not madness – it is cold, it is calculated and it’s like a group of little boys wanting to see what an explosion looked like; it is like a group of driven men bereft of concern for the world at large; it is like every homeboy who wants ‘respect, man’. It is like a group of intelligent morons. They will not be dissuaded. Like Stalin when he was asked to be careful not to offend the Pope: ‘Oh, how many divisions does he have?’ The Telegraph continues: So Mr Kim - beloved of his badly misled people - can expect to find himself even further isolated from the community of world nations in the immediate future. Does anyone seriously think he cares? [* Sorry, went to put in the link and suddenly they'd taken the story away.]