Western nuclear scientists call him the "Johnny Appleseed" of nuclear scientists. You know he is the "father" of the Pakistani bomb.
Posted on 08/17/2006 2:28:46 PM PDT by finnman69
There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing to for an underground test of nuclear bomb, U.S. officials tell ABC News.
"It is the view of the intelligence community that a test is real possibility," says a senior State Department official.
A senior military official tells ABC News that a U.S. intelligence agency has recently observed "suspicious vehicle movement" at a suspected North Korean test site.
The activity includes the unloading of large reels of cable outside an underground facility called Pungyee-yok in northeast North Korea. Cables can be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside observation equipment. The intelligence was brought to the attention of the White House last week.
Even before this most recent intelligence, there has been growing concern within the U.S. government that North Korea is moving toward a nuclear test. North Korea is believed to have enough nuclear material to build as many as a dozen nuclear bombs, but it has never tested one. A successful test would remove any doubt that North Korea is a nuclear power.
"What does he have to lose?" asked one senior military official, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Holy cow. You get the Jack Ryan award for coming up with that tid-bit.
This Tuesday? Hooooo-ly...
Ahhhhhh strike my earlier post...."WE'RE ALL DOOMED!"
They did. From the "Dr Strangelove of the East",Doctor AQ Khan.
That's precisely what I was thinking.
Though I get the context clues...my japanese is kinda rusty...
Jersey has the bomb? I sure hope Pauly Walnuts doesn't have his finger on the button.
Any relation to this:
Missile-like metal tube is reported over Hilo Airport
http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/17/news/story08.html
Axis of evil?
I think we beat the combination of Iran and Iraq in "Executive Orders."
Sure that isn't Charlie Rangel?
They had to develop one. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to prevent NYC from using the entire state as a landfill.
Bad but predictable course of action.
......it just says in Japanese things like he (Kim Jong il) went underground (or out of sight) at such times such as when Bush called initially him a
'tyrant' by name and went forward with UN sanction efforts, when Bush launched the Afghan Campaign and after 9-11, during the massive attack on Baghdad and hot war phases of Iraq, in preparation for the Taepodong launch several years ago, also after the failure of the 6 party talks in Beijing, and now, in connection with the last missile launches and possible nuke activity. he goes underground when he has something up his sleeve or when he is in a corner. we are approach "Day 46" of "Where's the Chia Head"?, i.e. he has been 'missing' and the longest period of time to date was 50 days....
North Korea and Iran are working together on their missile and atomic programs.
It also sounds like one heck of a "24" season.
Man, that's the South in late August...he's promising something that already exists...
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