Thar she goes! North Korean missile launch!

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OK, OK! I get the phallic impressionism going on here. This test was, after all, to 'climax' the ascension of Kim Jong Un to absolute authority over millions of starving subjects. At the very top of the missile was a warhead satellite whose purpose was apparently to observe the weather two miles down in the pacific ocean. One observer commented that the cost of this effort to dump hardware into the ocean was equal to about 60 billion bowls of rice!

The missile, which I think was named Jong's Dong II, barely made it over water before self destructing. I also understand that very shortly after this disaster occurred, a group of missile scientists were seen running pell mell towards the southern border.