North Korea to Help Iran Set off Small, Vaguely Nuclear Blast

Shocking the international community, North Korea has announced it will aid Iran’s nuclear program. Bringing all its expertise to bear, the isolated communist regime has vowed that Iran will soon be capable of tiny, hidden, underground explosions that seismic detectors and Geiger counters are barely able to confirm.

“Soon the West will be forced to acknowledge us,” said Iranian president Ahmadinejad. “To acknowledge, in a confused and half-interested way, that we may or may not have set off a nuclear device.”

The Bush administration is playing this one close to the chest, though a White House spokesman has admitted, “We are bracing ourselves for the indeterminate test results and anticlimactic malaise bound to follow this slightly comic nuclear collaboration.”

Student demonstrators have mounted sporadic, desultory protests in both countries while secret police watch during their lunch breaks and occasionally make an arrest.

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