They're not using it for electricity
Posted on 04/23/2009 9:44:48 AM PDT by Schnucki
North Korea has become a fully fledged nuclear power, with the capacity to wipe out cities in Japan and South Korea.
The uncomfortable truth has been confirmed by a number of experts, from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the US Defence Secretary. According to intelligence briefings shown to academic experts, North Korea has successfully miniaturised nuclear warheads that could be launched on medium-range missiles.
This puts it ahead of Iran in the race for nuclear attack capability, and significantly alters the balance of power between North Korea’s large but poorly equipped military and the South Korean and US forces ranged against it.
“North Korea has nuclear weapons, which is a matter of fact,” the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, said this week. “I don't like to accept any country as a nuclear weapon state. We have to face reality.”
North Korea carried out an underground nuclear test in 2006, but until recently foreign governments believed that such nuclear devices were useless as weapons of war because they were too unwieldy to be mounted on a missile.
With 13,000 artillery pieces buried close to the border between the two Koreas, and chemical and biological warheads, it was always understood that the North could inflict significant conventional damage on the South Korean capital, Seoul. But Western military planners have calculated that it could not strike targets outside the peninsula, and that superior US and South Korean forces would soon obliterate its Army and its Government.
Now, however, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Il, has the potential to kill millions of people in Japan, as well as the South, and to lay waste to US bases and airfields in both countries. It will force military strategists to rethink plans for war in Korea and dramatically increases the potential
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And we just let it happen, though the wonderful “art” of appeasement.
Time for BHO to send Kim Jong-Il an iPod and some DVDs. That’ll melt his genocidal heart!
One Ohio class sub would wipe North Korea off the face of the earth.
How can they be judged a “fully fledged nuclear power” if they’ve never gotten a fully-fledged nuclear explosion?
So, what’s new. So will be Iran. And when the first city in the US is nuked. Oh, how we will cry. And King Obama is reducing our military capability, might as well get ready now and move out of cities, buy more ammo and get ready for the invasion. This as@hat will plead, please can’t we talk?
They're not using it for electricity
Started with Clinton and continued with W.
No!!!! Really???? I didn’t know that. What a surprise. And what’s our leader going to do about it? Nothing comes to mind, until they use the weapons.
Ping
That “one dot” in North Korea must be the home of the dictator!
Yep, that’s Pyongyang where the little dictator lives
No problem. Send ‘lil Kim an iPod loaded with Obama speeches.
Like Iran, North Korea is veneer-thin in any kind of military strength.
A salvo from an Ohio-Class boomer.
Not sure how our Japanese friends would feel being downwind of all that.
Any idea what the lights are off the SE coast of S. Korea? Lit up fishing boats??? Doesn’t seem quite right.
Probably fishing boats and ships. Pusan is down there and is their largest port and 2nd largest city.
“Scientists from former Soviet Union, Pakistan, and Iran walked into a North Korean bar... “
After several glasses of fermented goat urine, the Pakistani scientist says, “We have built a conventional atom bomb for Kim.” He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a photo of a very large nuclear device, and proudly shows it to the other scientists. “Unfortunately the underground test did not go well.”
After several more glasses of fermented camel urine, The Iranian scientist says,”We have built an atomic bomb for The Dear Leader that will fit into a missile.” He pulls a photo of a much smaller bomb from his pocket, and proudly displays it. “Unfortunately, the cheesy North Korean No Dong fell into the sea.”
After even more glasses of vodka, the Russian scientist says, “Dat’s nothink! We have made a 1,000 kiloton bomb that is no bigger than a wallet!” He reaches into his back pocket and pulls out what appears to be a wallet, but it has an ominous red button in it’s center. “Unfortunately, it has yet to be tested. Here, hold my vodka, and watch this!”
Excellent point.
One Fast Breeder reactor of a vintage design and one dud test do NOT a nuclear power make.
There are many reasons why the test went dud. One is the design had serious problems (likely) or the "pit" was not pure enough (also likely) or a combination of both.
I feel that NK had no idea what went wrong with their dud, and have no clue to this very day. Only after their glorious failure, were they willing to resume talks at all.
There is no reason, especially given that all their technology was bought or stolen, to consider them anything other than what they are:
A rogue Nation run by thugs.
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