Some more on North Korea.

You know, Kim Jong Il and his government are a bunch of belligerent motherfuckers, but you can kinda see where they're coming from. After all, they're in the "Axis of Evil", as so named by our 5-year-old president. We're already gone after one member of the axis-schmaxis (I can't seriously call it an Axis when I think of, oh, I don't know, 1940s Germany and Japan), who we handily defeated. So they have some reason to be afraid that we're going to come after them, and their assertion that they need a strong deterrent is right on. Doesn't mean they'll win, but it's the only way they can do some damage.