[TigerLikesRooster]

So Bush Administration gave its official reaction. Tensions are rising.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Guillermo]

And the rest of the world, and the left in this country, will blame Bush.

[crazyhorse691]

A reviewing stand for visiting dignitaries

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And just how close is this to the blast site? If it is close enough for melted fillings, I have a list of Rats that I would like to invite.

[NJ_gent]

"North Korea is believed to have one or two crude nuclear bombs, according to US intelligence reports."

Yeah, according to intelligence reports in the early 90s. The latest ones put it somewhere around 10, roughly. Good job, AFP; way to stay on top of things.

[RoseofTexas]

I hope not! I don't think we can handle another conflict right now. But, that's my opinion though.

[ex-snook]

"So Bush Administration gave its official reaction."

Probably moved them up a notch on the axis of evil scale. NK is probably betting this will give them attack immunity as befits a nuclear power.

[6SJ7]

North Korea was building a reviewing stand

I did not know nuclear tests were spectator sports! On the plus side, one can have some fun. Bring a bag of unpopped popcorn, hold it up during the 'event'; bingo it's ready! Oh yah, and don't forget the sun-block.

[A CA Guy]

Figure that North Korea will blast the device they are testing near the South Korean border on a night when the wind is blowing toward South Korea as well.

Want to talk about a time and provocation to invade North Korea, if I were the south, that would be the sign to kick some North Korean @ss.

We'll see what happens.

[cmsgop]

This sounds Immanent if I read this statement correctly.

[GoDuke]

I say we kick-start that sucker with a boost from SLBM in the Pacific.

[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.

[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.