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Is Iran About to Test a Nuclear Bomb In North Korea?
Fox News ^ | 12/30/10 | Reza Kahlili

Posted on 12/30/2010 5:45:48 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Is Iran About to Test a Nuclear Bomb In North Korea?

By Reza Kahlili

Published December 30, 2010

On December 24, a research report from the South Korean Foreign Ministry Institute indicated that North Korea would carry out another nuclear bomb test after the beginning of the year. -- South Korean media reported earlier this month that the North was digging a tunnel in preparation for such a nuclear test.

At the same time, reports from inside Iran indicate that a team of Iranian nuclear scientists have been sent to North Korea and that the two governments have agreed on a joint nuclear test in North Korea with a substantial financial reward for the Kim Jong-Il government.

It is no secret that Iran and North Korea are collaborating in a ballistic missile program. The North Koreans provided Iran with the technology and know-how to build the Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile, which is a copy of the Nodong-1 missile. The Shahb- 3 missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) covering all of the U.S. military bases in the Middle East and the entire country of Israel.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; nkorea; northkorea; nuclear; nuke; nukes; rezakahlili
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1 posted on 12/30/2010 5:45:51 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 12/30/2010 5:46:22 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Cindy; AmericanInTokyo; FARS; All

PING A ROO


3 posted on 12/30/2010 5:47:13 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Amazing for a country that has disband their nuclear bomb aspirations years ago. I read it in the media so it must have been true.


4 posted on 12/30/2010 5:50:31 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If true:
Duck and cover coming shortly to Tel Aviv and Rome... and let’s not leave out NYC ... all the places Iran loves to hate. Calling the 12th Imam...


5 posted on 12/30/2010 5:50:58 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: PIF

I wonder what would go bang if a Tomahawk from a sub happened to wander down that tunnel. Hopefully the stuxnet virus may have some fun too.


6 posted on 12/30/2010 5:55:07 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Remind everybody that George Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ still has 2 countries left.


7 posted on 12/30/2010 6:04:27 PM PST by AU72
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There are so many potentially serious implications for this action.

Let’s have some fun for a minute. Let’s assume: there is a test, it is completely successful and the world is shown incontrovertible proof that the bomb was made in Iran.

Now comes the fun part: what will nobama’s reaction be?


8 posted on 12/30/2010 6:07:13 PM PST by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A Pu bomb is much harder to blow up than a U235 bomb. The tolerances for the sphere must be very precise, else you get a fizzle, which is what happened to the NoKo test.

Iran is using Uranium. Unlike Pu, the shape of the U235 doesn’t really matter once it reaches critical mass. A simple rail-gun will set it off.

The US nor the USSR ever dared to put U235 into an ICBM missile. It was too dangerous. The G-forces during launch could set it off.

By the late 1950s the US and USSR abandoned U235 bombs entirely because they were too dangerous to handle.

But if you’re a mullah who doesn’t dare about the occassional ‘work accident’, well..


9 posted on 12/30/2010 6:10:03 PM PST by Gideon7
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Too bad they aren’t testing a bomb ON North Korea.


10 posted on 12/30/2010 6:17:39 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Unfortunately, this makes sense.

Iran can have a bomb, without a nuclear test taking place on Iranian soil.

Lots of bad juju here. It would present a serious challenge even to a competent administration.

11 posted on 12/30/2010 6:22:27 PM PST by mojito
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To: TigerLikesRooster

To hell with it. How about WE ‘test’ a Nuclear bomb in NK?

It would probably be looked upon as an improvement by the locals.


12 posted on 12/30/2010 6:31:34 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Good! With any luck at all, the Iranians will infect NoKo with Stuxnet...


13 posted on 12/30/2010 6:36:30 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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Does anyone here have the UTM or Lat/Long coordinates of that tunnel?


14 posted on 12/30/2010 6:36:55 PM PST by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: PIF

0 says we can absorb an attack or some such nonsense.


15 posted on 12/30/2010 6:38:22 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m going to start a nuclear bomb shelter for the home business; similar to the ones that were around in the 50’s.


16 posted on 12/30/2010 6:47:41 PM PST by Stayfrosty
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To: KoRn
"How about WE ‘test’ a Nuclear bomb in NK?:

Excellent idea. And we should use one of our own naval vessels as ground zero:

17 posted on 12/30/2010 6:55:40 PM PST by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
Image and video hosting by TinyPic "Iranian scientists are just going to North Korea to test a peaceful nuclear energy program, obviously."

18 posted on 12/30/2010 7:11:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: bigheadfred

Exactly.

I hope the Persian perverts screw up and blow Pyongyang straight to HELL where it belongs...


19 posted on 12/30/2010 7:26:29 PM PST by Levante
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Is Iran About to Test a Nuclear Bomb In North Korea?

We tested a couple in Japan a few years ago why not test a few more in the DPRK?

20 posted on 12/30/2010 7:31:47 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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