Thanks. As you well know, I had to take a few days away and de-stress.
Has anyone posted the outcome of NK allowing "outsiders" to view the blast site from their hydro-electric construction detonation? Something I read in the doctor's office suggested it may have been a nuclear detonation after all. South Korea is saying the international observers were taken to a site some 60 km from where the actual blast took place. Will try to find the source for this info.
Thailand vows to get tough on separatist rebels
BANGKOK - Thailand signalled yesterday that it is poised to launch a new tough front against militants in the country's strife-hit south where more than 310 people have been killed this year in separatist violence.
The military would get more tanks and the defence minister has been given an overarching command role to tackle the worst crisis faced by the present government.
The Thai authorities have been rocked by the killing of a judge last week, the most high-profile victim of nearly nine months of attacks during a resurgent separatist uprising in the country's Muslim-majority southern provinces. (snipped)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,273982,00.html?
Sounds like another Chechnya -- violence perpetrated by Islamic majority separatists.
The diplomats were taken to a dam construction site where they saw excavation work. (Think they'd really take them to a nuclear test site or location where a rocket fuel/munitions explosion may have occured) Didn't see anything really to account for all the bruhaha. See my past summaries (accessable at the first part of this thread complements of nwctx). In all, it is a pretty screwed up situation. All the 'evidence' has not panned out, but the North must of been up to something.