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N Korea 'preparing second test'
news.com.au ^ | October 10, 2006 01:00am | From correspondents in Seoul

Posted on 10/09/2006 8:23:13 AM PDT by Sunshine55

SOUTH Korean authorities suspect that the communist state might be preparing a second nuclear test after unusual activities were detected in a rugged area in North Korea yesterday, a news report said.

Kim Seung-Gyu, head of South Korea's spy agency, told Parliament that activity involving vehicles and as many as 40 people was under way at Punggyeri in the northeastern county of Kilju, Yonhap news agency reported.

“From 4pm (AEST) yesterday, there have been some unusual movements under way at Punggyeri where we had thought the first nuclear test would be carried out,” Mr Kim was quoted as saying.

“We have been closely following developments there to find out whether North Korea is moving to conduct a series of tests as India and Pakistan did,” he said.

An unidentified lawmaker who serves on Parliament's intelligence committee quoted Mr Kim as telling the committee that there is a “sufficient possibility” of the North carrying out more nuclear tests.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: northkorea; nukes
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To: Sunshine55
FIRST ONE A DUD?
41 posted on 10/09/2006 2:48:19 PM PDT by excludethis
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To: Sunshine55

42 posted on 10/09/2006 3:18:20 PM PDT by CaptainCanada (Assalamu Alaykum - may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits...)
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To: Sunshine55

Jeeze--now he's just wasting them like a kid with a few M-80's and some model ships. Blow up one and you're letting the world knos you have 'em. Anything more is just a buck-toothed punk giggling and say "Rooky rookey--me make you big 'splosion!"


43 posted on 10/09/2006 3:25:02 PM PDT by Paul Heinzman (Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. --James Thurber)
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To: Zack Nguyen

I think we could sell 'em a couple. Sixty years ago, who would've predicted anyone would suggest such a thing.


44 posted on 10/09/2006 3:26:31 PM PDT by Paul Heinzman (Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. --James Thurber)
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To: oceanview

If he did, I'd write him in for a third term.


45 posted on 10/09/2006 3:28:26 PM PDT by Paul Heinzman (Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. --James Thurber)
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To: Sunshine55; All

I have been out all day, was the 1st test a dud?


46 posted on 10/09/2006 3:33:08 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Zack Nguyen
Could anyone blame Japan at this point for developing their own nuclear deterrent?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716301/posts

47 posted on 10/09/2006 3:48:10 PM PDT by CDB ("They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes." from Psalm 63)
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To: Sunshine55

Cuz he's so wonely, so wonely.


48 posted on 10/09/2006 4:00:49 PM PDT by Diggity
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To: bnelson44
was the 1st test a dud?

No. The Russians said it looked real enough. It is just that the Useless Nations can not decide what color of paper to scribble their note on. Mainly because there is still an active state of war on the Korean peninsula. A war that the UN brought about. Now they are in a corner.

49 posted on 10/09/2006 4:02:22 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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To: Zack Nguyen
They have to test their bombs in order to perfect them, since I suppose they don't possess the computer modeling capacity to test their weapons any other way.

They probably have the same "codes" that Los Alamos uses, courtesy of the lax security there. If not, they surely have the Pakistani "codes" and other design information. I'm sure the Iranians have both as well.

50 posted on 10/09/2006 4:03:49 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Sunshine55

Just my opinion, however, what would it take to send a secret mission to explode a device in NK? Then we say they had a major FU with their stuff. I say knock them out in secret!


51 posted on 10/09/2006 4:09:29 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America)
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To: tflabo

Secretary of State Albright gives Korean children hula lessons.


52 posted on 10/09/2006 4:32:44 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: RobFromGa
The relatively small explosive yield of the test suggests that the North Korean device failed to function properly, though it could also mean that the North Koreans wanted to test their design on a smaller scale before conducting a full-scale test. If that is the case, Pyongyang, now confident in the effectiveness of its device, could be preparing a full-effect test.

Or they were testing the "trigger" for a thermonuclear device. I doubt they could build a deliverable H-Bomb, but they could build a big one, both in size and yield, and set that off, just as the Soviets did with their first thermonuclear device, for the propaganda effect.

53 posted on 10/09/2006 4:34:13 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: dfwgator
The "Truman Legacy" as well.

Let's not forget Jerry Ford either. No death for heads of state sponsoring terrorist groups. Things went down hill fast from that point on.

55 posted on 10/09/2006 5:23:36 PM PDT by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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To: oceanview
japan should have developed their military, including nukes, years ago.

Would you fire off a nuke even at your enemy a mere 300-500 miles upwind? Japan can't nuke N.K. without killing their own. We can't nuke N.K. without killing likely more in Japan than N.K. The military option is MOAB's or conventionals capable of doing wide spread damage to key N.K. government installations.

56 posted on 10/09/2006 5:28:45 PM PDT by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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To: Sunshine55

I hear a lot of talk about how small the yield supposedly was. A lot of people saying it wasn't as big as previously used or tested weapons elsewhere. A lot of talk about moving it by submarine or missile.

Why is nobody mentioning that it may have been a suitcase nuke? The approximate yield of a suitcase nuke is 5 kilotons. The approximate yield of the recent test was between 5 and 15.

Mind the ports, men. Watch the airports. The war is coming.


57 posted on 10/09/2006 5:30:52 PM PDT by HushTX (Annex Mexico.)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Thats a belly laugh RF!!!!!!


58 posted on 10/09/2006 6:26:41 PM PDT by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: cva66snipe

all of that stuff about "nuclear clouds" and such, is way overblown.


59 posted on 10/09/2006 6:29:46 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Kimberly GG

its the only way to defeat NK, so its implicit in your argument. I am not disagreeing with you mind you, I am just making an observation that its not going to happen.


60 posted on 10/09/2006 6:34:10 PM PDT by oceanview
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