Interesting thing happened today — apparently Kim Jong Il decided to celebrate Memorial Day with some fireworks of his own — the kind that gives The Barack the screaming heebie-jeebies.

Specifically, according to the London Telegraph and New York Times,  the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” detonated a nuclear device today.

NO, Kim Jong Il doesn’t specifically want to nuke America or anyone else, whether to spread his Stalinist / Maoist version of communism, as that sort of thing is out of favor with his long-standing buddies in Beijing.

The REAL reason that he wants nukes is that a nuclear arsenal is a membership card in the geopolitical Don’t Fuck With Me Club, and he doesn’t want The Barack or the South Koreans depriving him of his subsidized frat-boy lifestyle of booze, drugs, porn and hookers by instituting Iraq-style “regime change.”

Those looking for such change need only wait until he croaks from an overdose and/or alcohol poisoning. In the mean time, China might continue to be the first Communist nation in history have an illegal immigrant “problem.” And South Korea, despite its heavily regulated economy, will continue to have a GNP thirty times the size of North Korea’s.

Thanks to “SwearNoAllegiance” for the tip.

And it’s pronounced “nu-cle-ar,” not “nuk-u-lar.”