Today's nominee for the "Don't Hold Your Breath" Award

...is the government of North Korea, which is demanding an apology from the United States for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's reference to their country as "an outpost of tyranny."

Yeah, like that's going to happen.

The only apology Kim Jong Il is likely to receive from Washington would be something along these lines: "We're sorry we haven't blasted your pathetic little backwater fiefdom into oblivion long before now." Or words to that effect.

Kim can get in line for his apology right behind Saddam Hussein, who's still waiting for President Bush to send him a card reading, "Sorry about the kids."