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A North Korea nuclear test over the Pacific? Logical, terrifying
Reuters ^ | 22 Sep 2017 | Hyonhee Shin, Linda Sieg

Posted on 09/22/2017 7:23:39 AM PDT by mandaladon

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Detonating a nuclear-tipped missile over the Pacific Ocean would be a logical final step by North Korea to prove the success of its weapons program but would be extremely provocative and carry huge risks, arms control experts said on Friday.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho suggested leader Kim Jong Un was considering testing “an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb” over the Pacific in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat at the United Nations to “totally destroy” the country.

“It may mean North Korea will fire a warhead-tipped (intermediate range) Hwasong-12 or Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile and blow it up a few hundred kilometers above the Pacific Ocean,” said Yang Uk, a senior researcher at the Korea Defence and Security Forum in Seoul.

“They may be bluffing, but there is a need for them to test their combined missile-bomb capability. They could have already prepared the plan and are now trying to use Trump’s remarks as an excuse to make it happen,” said Yang.

Such an atmospheric test would be the first globally since China detonated a device in 1980, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Tests of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles are rarer still. The United States’ only test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead was fired from submarine far out in the Pacific Ocean in 1962.

China was widely condemned for a similar test with a missile that exploded over its Lop Nur test site in the country’s west in 1966.

North Korea’s six nuclear tests to date have all been underground, the most recent earlier this month by far its largest.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kim; nk; nknukes; pacific; third100days; trump; trumpasia
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To: TexasGunLover

Long known, so no immediate link.
It’s like watching a dark room and seeing a bright light turn on. You’re quite aware of it, if looking.


61 posted on 09/22/2017 2:11:55 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: mandaladon
EMP test and demonstration?

What's next? One over the central USA?

62 posted on 09/22/2017 3:15:44 PM PDT by Gritty (The real battleground was never Raqqa or Kabul but New York and Paris, London and Rome-Mark Steyn)
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To: Candor7

I think somebody needs to set up an organisation which effectively eliminates dictators and usurpers without a trace. I would be happy to run it.


63 posted on 09/22/2017 4:51:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Candor7

P.S.
better me than Hillary...


64 posted on 09/22/2017 5:42:40 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
"I think somebody needs to set up an organisation which effectively eliminates dictators and usurpers without a trace."

Foggy Bottom used to be pdg at that game until Carter turned in the Shah, and Bubba and Madame Cankles got a serious hold of it.

65 posted on 09/23/2017 10:22:02 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: mandaladon
The Horror - all because:

Kimmy Don't Surf.

Has Kimmy ever pondered the difference between...

A:

[World's best surfing 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkhpGC10OVw

And

B:

Doesn't option A look like a lot more fun?

http://surfnorthkorea.com/

Maybe POTUS Trump could send Kimmy a gift package:

https://www.amazon.com/surfboards/b?ie=UTF8&node=3418591

66 posted on 09/23/2017 1:56:28 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: Trumpinator

Surfing Bat Ping!


67 posted on 09/23/2017 2:12:32 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: SaveFerris
Rut Roh!


68 posted on 09/23/2017 3:26:19 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: HLPhat; Bon mots

Oh my. For a second I thought that was Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a bikini, surfing.

The horror.

Haven’t been that scared since Angela Merkel danced.....


69 posted on 09/23/2017 3:29:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Just sayin’ - If I was dictator over a country “serving up a new surf destination with undiscovered breaks” - I know which option I would choose!

http://surfnorthkorea.com/


70 posted on 09/23/2017 3:31:03 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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