Pro-N. Korea paper: Nuclear tension could spike(October surprise: another nuclear test?)

SFGate ^ | 08/27/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

Pro-N. Korea paper: Nuclear tension could spike

By JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

(08-27) 05:21 PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) --

North Korea's threat to restore its nuclear facilities should not be seen as "empty talk" and the standoff could develop into a crisis similar to the country's first atomic test, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said Wednesday.

[TigerLikesRooster]

A S. Korean lawmaker, an military expert, argues that N. Korea could do another nuclear test around the time they did it last time. A date between Oct. 3 and Oct. 9 this year is supposed to be the strong possibility.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[JasonC]

Another squib? They can't get the math right. No one since John von Neumann has. They just copied his homework, every single one of them.

[TigerLikesRooster]

If it fizzles again, their test would become a huge embarrassment no amount of punishment to bomb engineers could erase.

[SevenofNine]

Tiger is Chia Pet birthday is in Oct or was his dead ole daddy Great Leader birthday is in October

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

NK figures it’s time for another $$$ shakedown.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Actually, Chia Head’ birthday is in February, while his dad in April.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's not tough to figure out who the “Dear Leader” wants to see win in November.

[AmericanInTokyo]

But since they ended up rolling the Bush 43 Administration just as much as they did the Clinton Administration, either way, they are patient and know that under a Republican Administration of McCain, with the same, career-led, entrenched and hopelessly appeasing State Department kept in place (which he would do), they will still come out ahead and get all kinds of good deals.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but those are the facts, well established now. Pyongyang may in fact not have any particular preference if they think they can still hoodwink and trick Democrat and Republican Administration alike, which they have deftly proven to be the case. They also know that if McCain got conciliatory towards Pyonyang, neither Pres. McCain's own co-opted, defanged RINO party nor the Democrats would oppose it, whereas if Pres. Obama took such moves, he would be opposed more than likely by the opposition, Republican Party.

They know how the game works maybe even better than we do.

[KantianBurke]

Wow, and all this time I thought Dubya had solved...cough!... bought off...cough!... the DPRK thugs. Looks like his legacy building attempt has fallen flat with our security compromised and our tax dollars wasted. Chalk this probable event up to another failure by Bush. How much longer till this loser is out of office?