Something To Ponder: Execution By A Nuke?

First off, I would love to take my size 13 golf shoe and squash this pint-sized porn freak runt.

Question: How many people perished in North Korea's first nuclear test?

Answer: Nobody knows, and the answer may never be known, but it would not surprise us if hundreds died. Given North Korea's history of horrors and atrocities--including manipulated mass starvation, gassing whole families to death in concentration camps, and driving steel cables through the shoulders and hands of forcibly returned refugees at the Chinese border--it is difficult to imagine the regime "wasting" a big bomb blast. Defiant and deranged Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is known to be a fanatic fan of James Bond films--he reportedly identifies with the Dr. No villain--and the prospect of staging a mass execution by nuclear explosion may have been irresistably attractive to him in the context of shocking the world.