How Did I Miss This?

Sometimes The Onion is cruder than it needs to be--and there are times when they are about as perfect in their satire anyone can hope to be.  This is a few years ago, but it still spot on:

N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP

October 18, 2006 | ISSUE 42•42

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—A press release issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency Monday confirmed that the Oct. 9 underground nuclear test in North Korea's Yanggang province successfully exploded the communist nation's total gross domestic product for the past four decades.

"This is a grand day for the Democratic Peoples Republic Of Korea, whose citizens have sacrificed their wages, their food, and their lives so that our great nation could test a nuclear weapon thousands of feet beneath our own soil," read an excerpt from the statement. "Now the rest of the world must stand up and take notice that the DPRK, too, is capable of decimating years of its wealth at any given moment."