And maybe they will. Who knows? Kim Jong Il has certainly made current events interesting.

But he knows better than anyone else that a nuke is only a defensive weapon. It's a THREAT. You SAY you're going to use it when you feel threatened. You HAVE it when you feel threatened. But you only use it in self-defense, unless Kim Jong Il has gone completely around the bend and decided, like "Papa" Monzano in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, "Now I will destroy the world"--right before he committed suicide.

Something tells me the guys in the big hats with all the stars on their lapels are going to stop the Dear Leader before he goes that far. Something tells me that the Cult of Kim isn't so deeply buried in the psyche of North Korea that they're willing to go into the Great Void alongside Kim. Just a little bird.