Ah, North Korea

If it looks like a missile, and acts like a missile, then it most likely is a missile, and it's probably not going to be used for anything short of blowing something up (perhaps a place that rhymes with Mouth Diarrhea), doing something that is internationally illegal or just more generally pissing off the more judicious nation states of the world.

The secretive lunatics that form the North Korean Government have just given the foreign media unprecedented access into their state to scrutinise the launch pad where they claim they will be shortly launching a rocket that will be putting a satellite into outer space.

When North Koreans allow you to scrutinise something of theirs, it’s always from a distance, with a machine gun to your head. A satellite people, do you hear, it's not a missile! It's a satellite. We have no reason - nope, no reason at all - to believe the North Koreans are telling porky pies.

Seriously, how dim-witted do Pyongyang think we are? Well, I suppose most of the mainstream media are a few fries short of a happy meal, which, incidentally, is something North Koreans are dying for. Food, that is. But that's communism for you.

By North Korea's reckoning, this disclosure to foreign journalists of their wholesome little rocket launcher will appease the world - particularly the United States which, let's face it, is the world - into believing North Korea are just a peaceful little nation that wants to send sunshine, rainbows and smiles into the earth's atmosphere, without any hint of a sinister intent.

They want us to think that their launches will not be used for provocative purposes. Is that like their nuclear missile launches over the years that weren't for provocative purposes? North Korea government officials don't bother getting out of bed unless it's for provocative purposes.

I get tired of all the left-wingers in the west defending nation states that are completely out of their minds, and treat their citizens appallingly, with the line, 'well, it's just a different culture'. Um yes, yes it is, it's a worse one, and one that needs to be eradicated.