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 ...
The left has told us that North Korea and Iran have nothing to do with one another. I guess they would have said the same thing about Japan and Germany sixty years ago.
Maybe Iran got the bomb from North Korea and they will test it Aug. 22nd.
Me too, Mo. I was going to type that I questioned the timing of this given what's going on elsewhere.
I take it direct ocean shipping between North Korea and Iran is commonplace.
I'm thinking that Iran and NK have decided that now is the time to do whatever they want considering that our elections are coming up and they think the US has lost its edge.
I pray they are wrong.
sheesh. what a way to spend a HONEYMOON!
"I pray they are wrong."
My money is on "wrong". The problem is, if the "test" or "tests" come as a attack, it will force us to do Very Bad Things.
Pray it doesn't escalate afterwards.
I thought he reappeared?
i think outside of visiting a duck farm or some other such stupid place with two of his generals in tow perhaps the other day (but no eyewitnessess), more or less the little fat bastard has been underground all this time (from right before he launched the scuds, nodongs and taepondong for a 4th of July fireworks show). he truly is afraid of being hammered by the USA, and digs deeper and deeper and deeper (while we perfect weapons in Nevada that go deeper and deeper and deeper)!! :-)
see my post, thnxs
It's inevitable
I am in Houston too! It's hot!
I have never believed in coincidence - in any regard. Everything happens for a reason, we just may never know that reason.
In this case - I think your statement suffices...
I hope you are right; the problem is that so many nations lately have seen the US effectively emasculated due to all of the domestic power struggles in this country they can think (and MAY be right) that the left in this country would prefer nuclear armed enemies rather than supporting our President in time of war.
I think it's coming to that.
If recent history means anything - we will do nothing but complain....oh, and a little moaning might go with it.
For some reason, we are standing around peeing in our boots, while the world gets ready to kill us. All because we don't have the guts to FIGHT. We are so worried about PC warfare - and diplomacy that we are letting these murderious crazies arm themselves. By the time we realize there is a problem, it will be too late (and many people will be dead).
Just like in Iraq before the war. Scary. :}
100% on the nose. Hear, hear...
The bad guys are on the march, and for some reason (denial, probably), the left is blind to this obvious fact. How many millions have to die before the gloves come off?
We're already the world's pariah for our "Cowboy Diplomacy," why not mount up now and show the world what a real rodeo looks like?
--Iran and North korea getting hot at the same time.
Coincidence? I think not.--
Connect the dots.
NK tests nuke.
NK sneaks nuke to Iran.
Iran sneaks nuke to terrorist bastards just in time for 8/22.
Boom!
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