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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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!"
I think we could sell 'em a couple. Sixty years ago, who would've predicted anyone would suggest such a thing.
If he did, I'd write him in for a third term.
I have been out all day, was the 1st test a dud?
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Cuz he's so wonely, so wonely.
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.
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.
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!
Secretary of State Albright gives Korean children hula lessons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thats a belly laugh RF!!!!!!
all of that stuff about "nuclear clouds" and such, is way overblown.
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.
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