horticultural event in Pyongyang held in honor of the 60th anniversary of the North Korean Communist Party provided viewers with the first glimpse of the newly hybridized floral axis of evil.

Crowds looked upon richly adorned floats covered with two special flowers named after the impoverished but nuclear equipped nation's last two despots, current eccentric, despot, and man about town, Kim Jong-Il, and the former leader of the rouge nation, Kim's father, Kim Il Sung .

The new violet colored hybrid orchid is titled Kimilsungia and the red begonia is called Kimjongilia.

Visitors to the extravaganza could pay the equivalent of about $4 to have their pictures taken in front of the flowers and two giant portraits of the despotic father and son.

"The desire of the horticulturists and the people of the DPRK (North Korea) to cultivate with care the Kimjongilia shining with the august name of the peerlessly great man, and bring it into full bloom, has grown stronger year after year," a festival coordinator said in an interview with state media.

Unfortunately, for the majority of North Koreans, neither the Kimjonilia nor the Kimilsungia can be eaten. Famines in the rogue nation have left hundreds of thousands dead in past centuries.

North Korea is able to produce little of its own food stocks and relies on aid relief and imports from China. Recent studies by human rights groups have found that North Koreans may be shrinking in overall body size from malnutrition.