Posted on 10/20/2006 5:08:47 AM PDT by psychopuppy
BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told a visiting Chinese delegation that the communist nation didn't plan to conduct additional nuclear tests, a news report said Friday.
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.
Kim also expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to the delegation and said Pyongyang would return to nuclear talks if Washington backs off from its financial sanctions, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday.
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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.
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.
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.
Kinny=Kimmy
Divide your timetable by 10 and you've got it.
Oh SURE he's sorry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe because the nukes are on the way to another country... hence the ship tracking now. /s
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.
No regrets by the ill one ......... just poor reporting.
He'll be regretful in the near future.
Our support for keeping Japan a non-nuke country.
and in his best imitation voice of the Wizard of Oz, Kim said "pay no attention to the men working at the test sites."
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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