[Strategerist]

Probably more useful to discuss real explosions about to happen instead of fake ones that didn't happen.

Keep in mind this was probably translated from Japanese, and could be written better; it's NOT saying the next North Korean nuclear test will be an actual warhead on a missile, just that the test could further their efforts towards having a warhead on a missile.

To be clear what is being discussed in the article is not what you think of in terms of a "hydrogen" bomb - it would not be a multi-megaton thermonuclear bomb, but a bomb where a small amount of fusion is used to enhance the efficiency and yield of a traditional fusion bomb. It would allow for further warhead miniaturization.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is the white house throwing a party?

[goodnesswins]

It would allow for further warhead miniaturization.

Yeah...like for an EMP???

[Strategerist]

edit...”enhance the yield of a traditional fission bomb.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think I have a better shot at building the Perpetual Motion Machine in my back yard than the NorKorComs have of solving nuclear fusion.

[Diogenesis]

[BenLurkin]

Did Red China give North Korea the missile portable bomb designs which were sold to it by Bill Clinton?

[varmintman]

Forget about Republicans for a moment, does anybody think John Kennedy or FDR would have tolerated this **** for two seconds??

[struggle]

I still say that the whole North Korean nuke program is a joke.

First explosion? Get 500 tons of TNT and blow it up!
Second explosion? Get 2X more!

Remember the first explosion when NO trace molecules for a nuke were seen leaking from the site, until the media notices and reported it, and then somehow they magically appeared?

I think that all the main nuke work and testing is occurring in Iran.

The rocket they launched is the delivery method. I believe they are shooting for a dozen-kiloton EMP 200 miles above the East Coast and are praying it will work.

[concerned about politics]

News out of North Korea is never totally reliable, but food shortages have reportedly gotten so bad that people are murdering their own children for food.
Back in 2003, during another food shortage there were refugee accounts that people in the country began killing and eating their children and then selling remnants of their corpses.
If things are as bad as "rumor" has them, Korea has nothing to left to lose.

[LifeComesFirst]

NK just wants to make headlines and rattle sabers to blackmail the free world for more aid. I won’t lose sleep over this. But I do worry about their people.

[Right Wing Assault]

If we responded to the Norks with 1,000 H-bombs, Korea wouldn’t look any different than it does now.

[Noob1999]

Oh Goody!

It looks like we have another opportunity to test our anti-missle systems!

But, Zer0, do you have the balls to shoot it down?