Gertz: U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear

The Drudge Report ^ | October 9, 2006 | Drudge

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Well, it doesn't really matter one way or the other if North Korea was testing nuclear stuff or just skimming stones. It is none of our business, other than to watch and make sure they don't point any hysterical stuff at the United States. China, Japan and Russia are by far closer, and these folks are the only ones the nut job of North Korea will pay any attention to. So, the United States should just put up the wall between us and Mexico, for their lovely corruption is a much bigger threat to the United States than some skimpy country, thousands of miles away, that can't tie their shoes correctly...

[Enchante]

Headline: N. KOREAN NUKE TEST A SHAMEFUL FIASCO

Former US Secretary of State Madeline Half-bright expressed her fervent sympathy for North Korea after a failed nuclear test proved to be a great embarrassment before the world. Said a tearfully supportive Albright:

"My poor dear Kim Jong-Il, he's struggled for a long with this problem, I thought I'd worked with him enough on his premature ejaculation......"

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

I wonder if they another of whatever it was that destroyed that train station a while back?

Michael Frazier

[steve-b]

Gulag with their name on it awaits.

The whole damn country is a gulag.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"worst option could be that they have a small yield weapon that could fit on a missile in their inventory."

I don't understand the belief that they need to make a weapon that can be delivered by missile or plane.

Several times I've sat in the cafeteria at Ft. Miley and watched container ships make their way into San Francisco Bay. Even a device as destructive as the Nagasaki bomb would cause catastrophic damage if it were detonated on board a ship that turned hard to starboard just inside the Golden Gate.

Our harbors have been worrisome since the WOT began, and now we know that it's possible the Jihadists might be able to get a weapon more easily.

Michael Frazier

[jerryem]

Obviously someone in NK read this before we did

[jpsb]

I am certainly not an expert, but there are only three posiblities. One test was successful and Russian estimate of yeild is correct. Two test was faked with hi tech explosives. Three easily the most likely, test did not go as planed, fission explosion happened but inproper design/construction of device caused device to lose it's critical shape too soon, reaction stopped to soon, yield less then expected.

I am tempted put in forth possiblity, device designed to be low yield, but that seems to unlikely to be a real possibility.

Of the three (or four) possibilities all but one is bad news. Guess we've got about 5 years to prepare. In 5 years NK will arm all our enemies with nukes. We can survive losing a city or two or three but not much more then that. Lose 10 Cities and we are back to being an 1880's society, 300,000,000 an 1880's society can not support. Which means 3 months after a 10 city Nuke attack we go back to the middle (dark) ages.

[jerryem]

I think you got the message about face another time, but I will reply anyway, the explosive material that I was talking about is a commercial explosive, not used as much as it should be, owing to its very high costs, (permission to use and handling being the main drawbacks) but it is definitely not in the experimental stage as you suggest. In the hands of terrorists it would defiantly change our world, one that new how, a matchbox size charge could put an end to a transport system (tunnels, railway stations,Bridges, etc)

[Brit1]

If its Nu then it is ,if it isn't its not !

[TASMANIANRED]

Whole country in a gulag.....

True, but even in hell there are deeper levels.

[petertare]

[newzjunkey]

Can we trust anything coming out of the CIA (assuming they're the source) after how badly they've been on other intelligence?

[gotribe]

Probably just the rev. moon trying to stick it to kim.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I seem to remember a few weeks back that North Korea was moving large amounts of conventional explosives for some unknown reason. Sounds like we found the reason.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wonder how much cash he brought with him.

[onedoug]

Me too. There's a hell of a lot of energy in a 4+.

[azhenfud]

You could if Chiaman packed a hole with 200 tons of TNT and claimed it were nuclear (a dumb idea, yes) to get the US to consider face-to-face talks with NK.

No madman rants, threats, or flexile calisthentics have produced even a slight budge in US policy toward NK and Chiaman's obviously beginning to feel the pressure. With the string of failures Kim's regime has recently suffered and the rhetoric from Pyongyang, it's apparent his regime is running out of sane options.

I will wait for the radiation detection test conclusions before totally dismissing the probability of a nuclear test event by NK, but so far, all sniffing equipment indicates that the event may never have gone critical and since trigger devices usually aren't of the hundreds of ton ranges, I suspect Kim may have "set us up the bomb" of conventional TNT.

[bandleader]

I thought that if it were"nuclear",this could be dtermined by taking air-samples downwind?

[fortheDeclaration]

Maybe the North Koreans need some help, they might just be confused.

We should show them a nuclear weapon up close and personal, so that they can understand the difference between a conventional one and an nuclear one.