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N. Korea - Blast Site: 129.10 40.81; Blast Strength: 550 Tons of TNT
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/09/06

Posted on 10/08/2006 10:13:15 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

3.58 in Richter Scale

Time: 10:35Am, Oct. 9, 2006


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; nkorea; northkorea; nucleartest; ronery; teamamerica
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I would be very careful about taking these numbers as gospel.


21 posted on 10/08/2006 10:23:26 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: jveritas

"That is a small one."

Yes, it is.


22 posted on 10/08/2006 10:23:35 PM PDT by stultorum (dont hire illegal aliens)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Hell, I'm still pist at the Rosenburgs!!! If it hadden't been for those "Liberals" we probably wouldn't have any Atomic Commies to this day!!!

Liberals think the United States and her people should just give EVERYTHING AWAY and NEVER have anything kept secret for the good of all mankind!!!

I think that pretty obviously sucks as of today, don't you???

23 posted on 10/08/2006 10:23:45 PM PDT by SierraWasp (To be fair, Bill Clinton did more than any other President to protect us from the Branch Davidians!)
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To: MaineVoter2002

9:35 PM Sunday ?


24 posted on 10/08/2006 10:23:59 PM PDT by msnimje (Democratic Leftists are nothing like LIBERAL. They are intolerant and intellectual cowards.)
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To: NinoFan

I still doubt it. I think it was leading up to this, perhaps as a deadline with Tehran, and he had to show something.

This is a fake, until there are some nuclear signatures. A nuke underground has to show something, unless they buried the bomb deep underground with no interest in research or supervision, just to blow it up. The bomb blew up near the surface - at least that latest seismogram says less than a kilo under, so their should be some venting or SOMETHING.


25 posted on 10/08/2006 10:24:18 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Third Order

That says plenty about CNN's viewership.


26 posted on 10/08/2006 10:24:23 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: COEXERJ145

Agree it is quite small, but I think little Kim has sealed his fate. President Bush will take him out before he leaves office in January 2009.


27 posted on 10/08/2006 10:24:33 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: COEXERJ145
If it was only 550 tons, then the test was almost a total fizzle.

How so?

It seems to me, just thinking logically, that the purpose of the test is to make sure the system works. The triggering or firing mechanisms and such that create the explosion. Once they have that system correct, making the bomb larger should be easier then creating it in the first place.

Where is my logic flawed?

28 posted on 10/08/2006 10:24:39 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Liberals would let Mark Foley be a Boy Scout leader.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Don't jump in thinking that its fake... it takes lots of computing power and testing to get these things to explode efficiently... lets just be happy that it looks like they are taking a conservative approach to it and not jumping right in trying to crack the earth in 1/2..


29 posted on 10/08/2006 10:24:47 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Danae
Lil' Kim is Bill Clinton and the Democrats doing.

You could have fooled me.


30 posted on 10/08/2006 10:25:42 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All

Whaaaaat I Do Nuting Wong! Just Wittle Test!!!


31 posted on 10/08/2006 10:26:34 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: MaineVoter2002

Korea is 13 hours ahead of the EST, so it was 9:35 PM our EST time.


32 posted on 10/08/2006 10:27:16 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Michael.SF.
550 tons is smaller than any primary I've ever heard of being tested. Yes it is a proof of concept but it a fairly worthless as a weapon. If they wanted to make a big statement it would have been much larger.

That said, I don't think it was 550 tons. I suspect around 4kt.

33 posted on 10/08/2006 10:28:51 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; All

Put this JUST DAMN catagory Tiger


34 posted on 10/08/2006 10:28:55 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: cpforlife.org

CHIA PETTTT are you still roaney?????


35 posted on 10/08/2006 10:29:34 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sounds like a fizzle to me..............


36 posted on 10/08/2006 10:31:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Third Order
38% on CNN's poll think NK has a right to conduct nuke test.

No surprise there. 100% of CNN management and staff probably think that Little Kim has a right to nuke the White House if Bush happened to be inside it.

37 posted on 10/08/2006 10:33:32 PM PDT by epow ("An unarmed man can only flee evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." ...Jeff Cooper)
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To: SevenofNine

yeees CHIA still wevy roaney!


38 posted on 10/08/2006 10:34:07 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

With respect, could "550 tons" be a typo? That's about 1/20th the yield of the Hiroshima bomb.


39 posted on 10/08/2006 10:34:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Natalie Maines fears me...)
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To: COEXERJ145
Yes it is a proof of concept but it a fairly worthless as a weapon

Then if they were testing the concept and it did explode, then the test was not a failure.

40 posted on 10/08/2006 10:34:43 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Liberals would let Mark Foley be a Boy Scout leader.)
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