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Report: Kim Has No Plans for Second Nuclear Test, Regrets First Test
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| Friday, October 20, 2006
| AP
Posted on 10/20/2006 5:08:47 AM PDT by psychopuppy
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To: sam_paine
"You may see that as a capitulation to China."No. The meeting in NK didn't take place in a vacuum. I was just speculating on the background movements and having some fun with the mechanics that might be involved.
To: psychopuppy
Re #1
Kim still wants financial sanction to be lifted. If it is not, he may resume his test. Chances are he will hold off and see what is going on. After a while, when the tension dies down but the sanction is still in effect, nuke test may be back.
He will do his best to get the sanction lifted. It is his primary goal he is anxious to achieve before N. Korea goes back to 6-party talks and talk over nuclear issues.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
As for his "nuclear" test, it was pretty much a fizzle and he used most of his plutonium to do it. I dunno about that. The fizzle part may be true, but I believe the fissionable material used was uranium.
Folks who know more than I about testing say that the test was likely to determine whether the first stage of a two stage detonation would work, and this uses uranium to ignite the reaction of a plutonium second stage, and thereby create a hydrogen bomb. the plutonium comes from spent nuke fuel and has a higher yield. You can't make a very small plutonium bomb without big-time knowledge and processes. The yield would have been measurably higher.
This is why Kinny had the uranium enrichment thing going in secret at the time of Clinton's bad deal, and also why Iran is enriching. It takes the two materials to tango, as I understand it, and play with the big boys.
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:17:49 AM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(I just analyze it, I did not create the mess...so go pound sand:-))
To: Cold Heat
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:19:21 AM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(I just analyze it, I did not create the mess...so go pound sand:-))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wonder how is "I'm sorry" is going to affect our tracking of the North Korean ship that's out there at sea.
I agree, once Kim's bomb shelter gets stocked with goodies it's gonna be the same old game. You can't change the man's ego.
And I'm sure Rice told China if they didn't go along with us they would suffer economic incoming sanctions too. No more "Made In China" imports would definitely impair the lifestyle of the Chinese Rich and Famous.
Money talks, but the lack of it screams.
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:20:53 AM PDT
by
not2worry
(What goes around comes around.)
To: wagglebee
Divide your timetable by 10 and you've got it.
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:31:08 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
To: psychopuppy; TigerLikesRooster
Now that has advertised to the world that he's got something to sell, why should he waste his precious fissile material on more tests? His only real problem is the perception that the device might have been a fizzle.
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:36:29 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: psychopuppy
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posted on
10/20/2006 6:46:19 AM PDT
by
brothers4thID
(Being lectured by Ted Kennedy on ethics is not unlike being lectured on dating protocol by Ted Bundy)
To: Carry_Okie
Re #47
Well, as you said, he needs to fix "fizzle" problem, and give a really convincing demo, at least to Iranians. So Chia Head attached condition U.S. is unlikely to accept. If U.S. caves, it is great. Iranians should wait longer, but since N. Korea forced U.S. to cave, U.S. position is weakened, which is also a good news to Iranians. It is worth a longer wait.
To: psychopuppy
Kim Jong Il reminds me a thief who is not terribly sorry that he stole but is terribly sorry that he is going to jail.
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10/20/2006 6:49:06 AM PDT
by
carton253
(Sadness is just another word for not enough chocolate.)
To: psychopuppy
Maybe Armitage gave him a call and said the US was gonna flatten Pyongyang and create a sea between S. Korea and China if he pulled another stunt.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Well, as you said, he needs to fix "fizzle" problem, and give a really convincing demo, at least to Iranians. Yup, and in the mean time, those reactors are still pumping out fissile material with which to make more.
It is worth a longer wait.
The longer we wait, the more bombs the more needles there will be in the global haystack.
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10/20/2006 6:58:30 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: psychopuppy
Maybe because the nukes are on the way to another country... hence the ship tracking now. /s
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:02:45 AM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Caliphate News Network... Whores for terrorists.)
To: psychopuppy
Please, China now looks like the "hero." Which is what they most likily wanted.
"They created peace...where the US wanted War". China will try to use this aganist in the future via Public Relations.
To: psychopuppy
I'll hold my breath!!
Help!! I'm turning blue!!
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:39:59 AM PDT
by
acsrp38
(Found: WMD Saddam didn't have before he didn't have them)
To: psychopuppy
Report: Kim Has No Plans for Second Nuclear Test, Regrets First TestNo regrets by the ill one ......... just poor reporting.
He'll be regretful in the near future.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:41:10 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
( Either hold your nose a little on Election Day ......... or grab your ankles for the next years)
To: psychopuppy
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:51:02 AM PDT
by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: aynrandfreak
What did we have to give the Chinese to get this result? Our support for keeping Japan a non-nuke country.
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10/20/2006 7:59:30 AM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(I don't know what your problem is, but I bet its hard to pronounce)
To: psychopuppy
Kim told Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan that "we have no plans for additional nuclear tests," Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed diplomatic source in Beijing.and in his best imitation voice of the Wizard of Oz, Kim said "pay no attention to the men working at the test sites."
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posted on
10/20/2006 8:03:26 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
To: SelectiveJNJ
Yep. Its all smoke and mirrors. The chicoms are the puppet masters and DoD knows exactly whats going on here. China is trying to make its self out to look like the good guy. Useful idiots will buy it our military will not.This is one of the reason the US stessed that it would use all means(meaning nuclear weapons) to defend japan.This was'nt only directed at NK but the chicoms as well.
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