Posted on 10/04/2006 6:32:41 PM PDT by melt
AMERICAN spy satellites have detected unusual activity at a suspected North Korean nuclear test site, suggesting that Pyongyang is preparing to carry out its threat to explode an underground atomic device. A US official said: “We have seen some activity in the area — personnel, vehicles, materials, things of that nature.”
The movements were spotted recently at one of a number of suspected sites that are closely monitored by the Americans. The official insisted that the findings were not conclusive.
The Pentagon assessment was expected to heighten tension in the region, where China, Japan and South Korea all appealed to the regime in Pyongyang not to carry out its threat to detonate an underground nuclear device.
Last night Christopher Hill, the US Assistant Secretary of State, said that Washington had warned North Korea not to conduct the test. “We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea,” he said.
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Doing so will scare the pi$$ out of the South Koreans..and just might knock some sense into them.
As long as the peaceniks in the South Korean government are willing to fund Kim Mentally Ill's army he'll remain a danger to the world.
Maybe we should do our own above-ground test. :-)
Threatening those tersely worded condemnations of N.K.
nuclear muscle flexing has worked well.
Maybe Bush will blink again, the missed opportunity to
punish N.K. evaporated on July 4TH, this administration
allows our enemies to continually re-group.
The same strategy employed by previous administrations.
The article states that they spotted "activity". How do we know it is nuclear? Is everything that goes on at Handford reservation in Washington State "nuclear" in nature? Why should we even be concerned about this? This from a country who was going to prove that they had a rocket that could make it to the U.S. but barely made it off the launch pad. I would be more concerned that their test would end in a meltdown let alone be a success.
"Maybe we should do our own above-ground test. :-)"
Too much fallout.
definately we should pull out of South Korea. Most of Koreans hate us already. It's a mission we couldn't really win anyway. Those soldiers would simply be cannon fodder until a fleet arrives and air bombs the shiznit out of NK.
It will also eliminate the club that the anti-americans in SK use to win their seats. "but so and so supports the Americans!". Take that away from those fracks.
We'd better stop this!!!
The Clinton & Albright "framework agreement" financing North Korea so they could afford to pursue nuclear weapons is really paying off!
/S
Just what exactly are you waiting for to show concern? A million dead?
Sounds like a winning kimbination to me.
From what? A nuclear missile that can't get off the launch pad? With their record it could end up in one of their own cities.
MSM dogma. Don't buy it.
"Last night Christopher Hill, the US Assistant Secretary of State, said that Washington had warned North Korea not to conduct the test. “We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea,” he said"
What's he think we've been doing?
nuke it right there in the silo.... and then tell the world it must have malfunctioned and blown up.....
And what do you propose to do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So why should you or I even give a rip about these scare mongerings. Nothing will be done and it doesn't do one bit of good to go all berserk because of what might or could happen. There is plenty in this world that we do not have control over that could could cause devastation. Remember Indonesia. The same thing could happen in L.A. or New York. Nothing we can do about it so why stew and fret.
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