North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had two missions this past weekend. First, he wanted to celebrate the 105th anniversary of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung’s birth with a display of military power. Second, he wanted to show off that power while American warships approached North Korea, and also while Vice President Mike Pence was visiting South Korea.

So what better way for Kim to display his strength than with a Big Parade:

Where he could also show off his Really Big Missile, the “Frankenmissile.” It’s a mashup of two types of intercontinental missiles.

Then, his brainwashed subjects could enjoy a little Dance Party in honor of the evil Dear Leader’s evil grandfather:

Finally, the tubby tyrant decided to cap off the festivities with a good old-fashioned missile launch. However, it didn’t go as planned.

We don’t have any videos of Kim’s inability to get his missile up, aka Kim’s Premature Detonation. I wonder if it went something like this:

No doubt we can laugh at Kim’s embarrassment, but where will all this end?

North Korea’s ally China is none too happy with Kim’s saber-rattling. Xinhua, the official Chinese newspaper, called on Kim to stop with the missile launches and his nuclear capers. China has also reached out to Russia for help in defusing tensions between the US and North Korea.

On the other hand, China isn’t playing peacemaker for altruistic reasons, because North Korea is simply a pain in China’s backside.

Conservative bloggers Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Steve Green point out China’s issues with Kim in this thought-provoking discussion. As Ott points out, “people who are starving to death don’t buy no iPhones.”

At the rate he’s going, Kim’s hold on North Korea may not continue much longer. Will he go out in spectacular slow-mo fashion, a là the 2014 movie The Interview?

Or will China somehow fashion a coup to rid themselves of their pest, as Steve Green suggested? Anyway, better the Chinese than the Americans. We have some ISIS mop-up to complete.