The civilized world has known for some time that North Korea has produced and tested nuclear devices. We don't know for sure how many they have — but we know they have them. Kim Jong Un, the stunted little gargoyle with bad hair from a long line of stunted little gargoyles with bad hair who have ruled North Korea since 1948, wants the hermit kingdom to make more nukes and is pushing for (read that, ordering) an increase in uranium enrichment to that end.

What could go wrong?

North Korea offered a rare glimpse into a secretive facility to produce weapons-grade uranium as state media reported Friday that leader Kim Jong Un visited the area and called for stronger efforts to “exponentially” increase its number of nuclear weapons.

It’s unclear whether the site is at North Korea’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex, but it’s the North’s first disclosure of a uranium-enrichment facility since it showed one at Yongbyon to visiting American scholars in 2010. While the latest unveiling is likely an attempt to apply more pressure on the U.S. and its allies, the images released by North Korean media of the area could provide outsiders with a valuable source of information for estimating the amount of nuclear ingredients that North Korea has produced. 

Unfortunately, the images don't seem to provide any target acquisition hints for any... interested parties who might see it as a worthwhile effort to have something unfortunate happen to this facility.

The Kim regime is selling this as a defensive measure because of course they are.

KCNA said Kim stressed the need to further augment the number of centrifuges to “exponentially increase the nuclear weapons for self-defense,” a goal he has repeatedly stated in recent years. It said Kim ordered officials to push forward the introduction of a new type of centrifuge.

Kim said North Korea needs greater defense and preemptive attack capabilities because “anti-(North Korea) nuclear threats perpetrated by the U.S. imperialists-led vassal forces have become more undisguised and crossed the red line,” KCNA said.

Fact-check — the United States has not made any nuclear threats towards North Korea or anyone else. This is the purest of stuff one might find at the south end of a northbound horse. But this stunted little gargoyle with bad hair gets away with this in North Korea because the people of the Hermit Kingdom are so isolated, so poorly educated, so conditioned to believe any utterance by their "Dear Leader" that they will accept this utter corral litter without question.

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Sadly, it's difficult to see any good ending for the North Korean regime or its people. Decades of isolation, decades of the most brutal oppression, decades of brainwashing — the North Korean people have suffered much, and most of them have very little idea what the world outside North Korea is like. Deleting Kim won't suddenly transform North Korea into a modern state like South Korea. Overthrowing the North Korean Stalinist government won't do the trick, either. North Korea's people are like abused children; they will take years of rehabilitation to re-enter the civilized world, whether they establish their own modern state or rejoin the South Koreans. Any such effort will take years and cost billions. And it's not at all clear that the South will take the project on.

Nukes or not, Kim Jong Un or not, there's just no easy way out for the North Korean people.