[1curiousmind]

First Kim Jong-il has a NoDong failure. Now this. Oh the humanity!

[pgyanke]

First Kim Jong-il has a NoDong failure. Now this.

The good news for him is that his country should be mostly safe when he launches...

[gridlock]

The latest intelligence estimates of Monday's test at a nuclear test site near Kilju, in northeastern North Korea, put the size of the blast at 0.2 kilotons, or the equivalent of 200 tons of TNT.

A conventional bomb in the 0.2 kiloton range is a distinct possibility. Perhaps this explosion was not nuclear at all, and was just a bluff.

I can't see any rational reason for North Korea to do this. But rationality has never been their strong suit.

[technomage]

I can hear the brain dead libs now:

"See, he does not have a nuclear weapon. We have nothing to worry about. Let' negotiate".

Such ridiculous logic is why libs are so dangerous. If they were around during Edison's time, they would have cut funding on his tests to develop the light bulb after his 700th failure, or maybe his 800th failure.

I actually heard some lib pundit profess a few days back that: "The blast was really small, maybe a quarter of the yield of Hiroshima. So, we should not over react".

Again, see how dangerous libs are. A quarter of the yield. Okay, that means a bomb like that, exploded in a densely populated area, would only kill maybe 50,000 instead of 200,000.

Liberals: "We will put anyones life at risk in order to regain our power"

[Lazamataz]

No (working) nukes.

No (working) ICBMs.

Tell me why this guy frightens us, again?

[Charles Martel]

Poor ol' Kim... he gots the missile dysfunction AND the fissile dysfunction!

And all that "H-bomb" talk? Impotent rage. < Beavis > Heheheheh Heh Heh < /Beavis >

[GOPJ]

Half sized blast for a half sized jerk...

[Robe]

TIGERLIKESROSTER posted this yesterday: It seems that Russia may have had a hand in designing a tunnel which is designed in masking the telltale P-wave that announced a nuclear explosion For more go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"The detected explosion likely was produced by the conventional high-explosives used to split the plutonium atoms and produce a nuclear explosion, one official said.

Yup.

[Redcloak]

"Onry two-hunna tons?! It supposabe twenny kiroton! Now evabody gonna tink my rittre Kimmy is rearry rittre."

[onedoug]

How about the poor bastar...uh, technicians who have to haul it out of there.

[ex-Texan]

So North Korea's initial tests failed, claims unnamed intel sources. Big deal. Yesterday, Kim was threatening to set off a hydrogen bomb in a new test. That threat was published in European media reports. The U.S. news media sat on their hands. ABC, NBC, SeeBS all ignored the threat so it never happened. Just like China's threats to nuke the west coast never happened. Only what appears on the nightly television news happens. The country falls asleep in front of their television sets every night. Nothing ever happens. Except for the Foley scandals. They are still in the news. Go back to sleep, people.

[Fresh Wind]

The detected explosion likely was produced by the conventional high-explosives used to split the plutonium atoms and produce a nuclear explosion, one official said

This official has no clue how a nuclear bomb works.

[Mike Darancette]

Wouldn't a partial detonation would leave an awful lot radioactive material around?

[ozzymandus]

Failure or deliberate fake?

[buck61]

I know how he must feel with that, no dong, "failure".