Posted on 02/12/2013 10:12:21 AM PST by ColdOne
The attention-grabbing test came on the same day Obama is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress.
Obama's full statement on the nuclear test follows:
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
No need to worry, everything’s just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Dear Leader had any balls he would be placing sanctions on the NK puppet master: China...
And if my aunt had any balls, she’d be my uncle.
My exact first thought. The first post made.
He issued A statement at 2 AM ?
I had to read it several times before the time sunk in.
2 AM ? He must be feeling the heat for being asleep at the switch on Benghazi.
2am he was still awake hadn’t gone to bed yet. Remember he is a late evening guy.
I imagine the NKs are quivering with fear over a threat from their fellow communist.
one more thing....this was breaking news on CNN 8pm my time. Which made it 11pm White House time.
My dog is barking at the guy walking down the sidewalk.
one more thing....this was breaking news on CNN 8pm my time. Which made it 11pm White House time.
I argued back in January that North Korea and Iran were working jointly on missile and nuclear development.
I give DEBKAfile a roughly sixty percent credibility rating, but it reported today that
There is full awareness in Washington and Jerusalem that the North Korean nuclear test conducted Tuesday, Feb. 12, brings Iran that much closer to conducting a test of its own. A completed bomb or warhead are not necessary for an underground nuclear test; a device which an aircraft or missile can carry is enough.I don't agree with the thesis that Iran's likelihood of conducting a nuclear test soon is likely to have been advanced by the NK test. They seem to be working very well together and if, as seems likely, Iran will share in any technical information garnered from the NK test, it would have little incentive to go forward with its own, particularly if that would mean more international problems including additional sanctions. Indeed, it would not surprise me if Iran were to limit its own Uranium enrichment and "outsource" that work to NK.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s boast this week that Iran will soon place a satellite in orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers – and Tehran’s claim on Feb. 4 to have sent a monkey into space – highlight Iran’s role in the division of labor Pyongyang and Tehran have achieved in years of collaboration: the former focusing on a nuclear armament and the latter on long-range missile technology to deliver it.
Their advances are pooled. Pyongyang maintains a permanent mission of nuclear and missile scientists in Tehran, whereas Iranian experts are in regular attendance at North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests.
Since the detonation of the “miniature atomic bomb” reported by Pyongyang Tuesday – which US President Barack Obama called “a threat to US National security”- Iran must be presumed to have acquired the same “miniature atomic bomb” capabilities – or even assisted in the detonation.
It could be argued that China might take NK to the woodshed. It will probably make noise, agree with more sanctions and then ignore them at least as to luxury goods (which seem to be the most important to NK) as it has done previously.
NK has displayed some pique at China, and it was reported a couple of days ago that news from Chinese sources, a principal feature of NK television, has been largely missing of late. Still, China has a great interest in stability in NK and has no interest in massive floods of undocumented illegal immigrants crossing its borders.
Obama ran both elections on the premise that we pretty much don’t have any right to tell a nation what to do.
...every day he shows me another version of his ineptitude...
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
What is he going to do challenge Kim Jung-un to a skeet shoot?
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