Whaaaaat I Do Nuting Wong! Just Wittle Test!!!
Damn, F'ing STUPID.
Bump
so are you saying NK faked a nuclear test?
That is a small one.
I said some Freeper would know.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-10-09T042218Z_01_L08141538_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
North Korea says conducted nuclear test
Mon Oct 9, 2006 12:22 AM ET
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it had safely and successfully carried out an underground nuclear test in a gesture of defiance as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in South Korea.
"The nuclear test was conducted with indigenous wisdom and technology 100 percent," North Korea's Korean Central News Agency said.
"It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the KPA (Korean People's Army) and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defense capability."
The report said there was no leak or danger from the test.
The U.N. Security Council last Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a test, warning Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did.
The dollar rose to a seven-month high against the yen after the reports but analysts did not expect long-term fallout unless the situation deteriorated further.
"The economy of North Korea is virtually closed from the rest of the world and its regional impact won't be very significant unless there was a major military confrontation," said Wang Qing, an economist at Bank of America in Hong Kong.
South Korea's presidential Blue House said a tremor of magnitude 3.58 to 3.7 had been detected in North Korea at 0135 GMT on Monday.
However, the U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected no seismic activity such as might be expected from a nuclear test on the Korean peninsula within the past 48 hours.
Abe, speaking in Seoul after arriving from an ice-breaking visit to Beijing, also said Japan had no confirmation of a test by North Korea.
A U.S. official said North Korea gave China a 20-minute warning of its test and China immediately told the United States, Japan and South Korea.
Officials in China had no immediate comment.
SECURITY MEETING IN SEOUL
In South Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun was holding an emergency meeting of top security officials at the Blue House following the announcement.
Tokyo backs a hard line toward Pyongyang, while Seoul and Beijing -- leery of instability on the peninsula -- have previously cautioned against backing the North into a corner.
However, all three agree that Pyongyang should end its nearly year-long boycott of six-country talks on ending its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea announced last week it would test a nuclear device saying its hand was forced by what it called U.S. threats of nuclear war and economic sanctions. But it said it would not be the first to use a nuclear weapon.
Analysts say North Korea probably has enough fissile material to make six to eight nuclear bombs but probably does not have the technology to devise one small enough to mount on a missile.
Uh, Fox is already reporting 4.2 on the Richeter scale. Also, the tons seems way too low. Sorry, not buying this report.
That's small. How does that compare to the 9-11 explosions caused by 767 and 757 collisions into buildings?
Like I posted, its a fake to consolidate Kim Jong's power. He is nearing death and wants to make a legacy and a son that can continue his power. This is the small bang that supercedes his wimper.
Time: 10:35Am, Oct. 9, 2006
What time was that eastcoast USA?
It's time to send Jung Il to " Kimgdom Come"!
38% on CNN's poll think NK has a right to conduct nuke test. Cute.
http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/27739.exclude.html
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???
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..
Whaaaaat I Do Nuting Wong! Just Wittle Test!!!
Put this JUST DAMN catagory Tiger
Sounds like a fizzle to me..............
With respect, could "550 tons" be a typo? That's about 1/20th the yield of the Hiroshima bomb.
I just saw a report on CNN International that blames President Bush for this. They put a timeline on the screen that says:
JANUARY 2002:
President Bush branded North Korea as part of an "axis of evil"
OCTOBER 2002:
North Korea was discovered to be secretly enriching uranium... a violation of an agreement with the US
In other words, that cowboy Bush scared Kim into developing nukes because he thought President Bush would invade North Korea just like Afghanistan and Iraq. I know, it completely ignores all sortsa stuff but what do you expect?