Nuclear test by North Korea will be 'provocative act:' White House

Yahoo News ^ | 05/06/05 | AFP

[ClearCase_guy]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the N Koreans had developed a 2-stage bomb. You know, bomb goes off, maybe a 10-megaton yield, followed, about 30 minutes later, by a 100-megaton blast which unexpectedly wipes out many of the scientists on site.

Bomb experiments don't always work out as planned.

[SevenofNine]

We could make a deal with Little Kim he give up leadership and "Friends" in Hollywood could take him

After that performaance in Team America I think we give him to Broadway

[Fitzcarraldo]

Fine - let them test - that's one less bomb they can use elsewhere.

[Centurion2000]

It would be such a shame if the bomb they detonated suddenly malfunctioned and gave approximately 100 times the desired yield.

A 50 kilton atomic weapon ? My my my ... just how did that turn into a 5 megaton thermonuclear detonation ???

North Korea must have had some tritium deposits in that hill that just went POOF.

[HereInTheHeartland]

" Bomb experiments don't always work out as planned."
Kind of like cruise missiles going off course accidentally.

[GoDuke]

Exactly!

[Paleo Conservative]

I favor atmospheric testing over North Korea's nuclear reactor.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Haven't the DPRK already moved way over the "RED LINE" that we symbolically drew and talked about nearly three years ago?

We are getting kind of like milquetoast US trade negotiators with the Japanese in the 1990s. We keep warning 'if you do this' 'if you do that, then...', but at the end of the day, we do nothing, they call our bluff, so the Japanese trade negotiators keep up their iron wall as they know we are made of empty threats.

Bottom line is the DPRK leadership under KJI and the Workers Party and KPA, reads the same Pentagon reports we read about the US being seriously militarily globally overstretched...and they keep kicking sand in our eye with confidence.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #28

Which is why there is a chance that this will result in a horrendous blow-out. N. Korea keeps pushing and leave U.S. nothing but the last resort. I mean, forcing Dubya to pull the madman.

You know they are planning on a huge celebration on coming Aug. 15. I am sure they want to celebrate more than just 60th anniversary of liberation.

This could turn out to be the rerun of 1998 gala celebration after their long range missile launch.