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N. Korea says it conducts successful powerful H-bomb test
Associated Press ^ | January 5th, 2016 | By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG

Posted on 01/05/2016 8:26:48 PM PST by Mariner

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would put Pyongyang a big step closer toward improving its still-limited nuclear arsenal.

A television anchor read a typically propaganda-heavy statement on state TV that said North Korea had tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, elevating the country's "nuclear might to the next level" and providing it with a weapon to defend against the United States and its other enemies.

The statement said the test was a "perfect success."

The test, if confirmed by outside experts, will lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations and further worsen already abysmal relations between Pyongyang and its neighbors.

North Korean nuclear tests worry Washington and others because each new blast is seen as pushing North Korea's scientists and engineers closer to their goal of an arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; dprk; hbomb; hydrogenbomb; japan; korea; nknukes; nkorea; norks; northkorea; obamalegacy; pyongyang; republicofkorea; test; trump; trumpwasright; worldwarthree
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To: ETL
Ping to comment #18.


21 posted on 01/05/2016 8:52:59 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Mariner; KC_Lion; TADSLOS; Lazamataz

I guess Lil’ KimJong has finally found religion.

I hear this was the moment of his conversion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkOGH52_ms


22 posted on 01/05/2016 8:55:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: familyop

again

The requested document does not exist on this server.


23 posted on 01/05/2016 8:58:41 PM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: Mariner

I think maybe Kim-Um-JunkIl passed gas.


24 posted on 01/05/2016 9:01:32 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SERKIT
> Yet another failure of intelligence?

Our intelligence people are too busy reading your email, listening to your phone calls, and reading Facebook to learn what you do at night.

25 posted on 01/05/2016 9:07:43 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: FredZarguna
Complete Bollocks.

That's my reaction, although I seem to recall that there is a spectrum of fusion "enhanced" devices, short of a dominate fusion reaction, so maybe there is some technical basis for this claim, however thin.

26 posted on 01/05/2016 9:10:46 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: SpaceBar

This is why I was telling you that Japan and South Korea must resolve the comfort women, issue because they both have to deal with the China-North Korea-Pakistan- Russia axis.


27 posted on 01/05/2016 9:20:58 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: familyop

You’re link doesn’t work.


28 posted on 01/05/2016 9:21:49 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Mariner

Yeah, because doesn’t a Hydrogen bomb (fusion) require a fission reaction to initiate the fusion reaction? Have they had a successful fission test? Don’t recall other than a couple of failed attempts with lots of conventional explosives that would have been for a fission test.


29 posted on 01/05/2016 9:22:40 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: eastforker; StoneWall Brigade
"The requested document does not exist on this server."

"You're link doesn't work."

Thanks. This one works.

S. Korean Lawmaker, "Russia might have given N. Korea know-how of miniature nukes"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts


30 posted on 01/05/2016 9:37:08 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: eastforker; StoneWall Brigade
It was a stray quotation mark at the end of the URL. The following link does work.

"The requested document does not exist on this server."

"You're link doesn't work."

Thanks. This one works.

S. Korean Lawmaker, "Russia might have given N. Korea know-how of miniature nukes"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts


31 posted on 01/05/2016 9:39:26 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: yadent

He was first and only one.


32 posted on 01/05/2016 9:48:35 PM PST by jennychase
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Urkel must have been studying the Ron Brown funeral recording.


33 posted on 01/05/2016 9:54:42 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Mariner

Doesn’t sound like an H-bomb.

The 5.1 magnitude quake indicates a yield of only around 45 kilotons - in the ballpark of their earlier tests.

It could have been a dud H-bomb - a fission trigger explosion that failed to produce the fusion explosion.

Or they might have been exaggerating their claim.


34 posted on 01/05/2016 9:56:20 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: familyop

Thank You very interesting stuff.


35 posted on 01/05/2016 9:59:39 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: PrairieLady2

One detonated in a third-nation-flagged tramp freighter near the port of New York will crash our economy and take most of the rest of the world with it. Just one.

They only *need* one.


36 posted on 01/05/2016 10:02:09 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: BeauBo
"The 5.1 magnitude quake indicates a yield of only around 45 kilotons"

Our Pershing II missiles had a thermonuclear yield of 5-50KT. Selectable.

The Minuteman III ICBM carries 100KT warheads.

And, I don't think we have ever seen a 45KT fission weapon.

37 posted on 01/05/2016 10:20:03 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: monkeybrau
There's a substantial mountain there they likely just blew up.

Unlikely to be any sign of the explosion on the test site surface except for extremely trace radioisotopes over time.

38 posted on 01/05/2016 10:23:29 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O�Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: StoneWall Brigade; eastforker; TigerLikesRooster
"Thank You very interesting stuff."

You're very welcome. The following is also very interesting.

Watch the video for footage of what appears to be the preparation and shot. Thanks to TigerLikesRooster (different thread here, TLR).

TigerLikesRooster wrote:
"Here is a N. Korean news clip which announces their H-bomb test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW7zBizTr5g
"


39 posted on 01/05/2016 10:30:40 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: ETL

URL correction. Also see previous comment (video about test shot).

S. Korean Lawmaker, “Russia might have given N. Korea know-how of miniature nukes”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts


40 posted on 01/05/2016 10:33:52 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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