In the midst of all the news in the Middle East, North Korea may be getting ready for an underground nuclear test. Here's hoping for a dud (though it would be hard for us to know if they failed).

I doubt any dud. Pretty hard to screw up a uranium bomb, heck even I could make one work.

Plutonium on the other hand...

It's interesting that this is being ascribed to "banging for attention."

Ahmadinejad says that August 22nd is the day to watch. Other mullahs claim that America will be slapped and shocked.

North Korea, of course, has exported missiles.

Here's a thought: What if there were really were an "axis of evil"? What if North Korea was prepared to export the components necessary for a basic nuclear weapon (as noted, uranium gun-type weapons are pretty much fool-proof), say in exchange for oil?