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 ...
--A nukular test by NJ should be a declaration of nukular war.--
Yeah! Nuke New Jersey, turn it into a nuke waste dump, and solve the radioactive waste storage problem forever ...
Hey, why the hell not. What are we going to do about it?
After what just happened with Israel, they know there is very little we can do.
Iran/DPRK/China. Can you say, collusion?
I think its pretty unlikely that the administration will do anything about it.
On the other hand, Id be really glad if they did. If theres a citizenry that needs liberation, its the north koreans. Poor buggers.
Ouch. I meant my post as a compliment to you, as I find your input very informative.
Sorry to have offended you.
They didn't want to fall off the headlines.
Lil Kim: "Nobody rikes me."
Typical of ABC News to be beating the drums of war!! Those crazy right-wingers! wait....
We might as well pack up our bags and go home, game over.
That's why I fear the day that the CIA/Mossad actually confirm it, because Israel will have delivered the fireworks before we wake up in the morning. It won't be pretty.
BUMP
bah, put this back in breaking
Any luck he'll blow himself up?
"I'm not talking about a few tactical nukes either, but about 20 of our 400kt warheads."
Das wut I'm talkin' 'bout!
LLS
"What would Bush do if they tested on the same day?"
As per usual, nothing. The left can't bear the thought of another conflict and will make sure his hands are tied.
"Or they both make moves at the same time? NK goes south, and Iran moves on Iraq and Israel?
Does China want to join the party, too?
The map on the war games thread suggests that Iran has big plans this weekend..."
Iran will be flattened if they try it. It's one thing for us to be timid about climbing mountains to invade Tehran and an entirely separate matter for them to even get close to Bagdad in the open desert.
As for North Korea this would be very ugly for the South and our troops stationed there. Nuke them to repel the invasion and you get China involved. Conventionally, I see the North overunning the South (I hate to admit that). The older generation in the South were strong willed people who fought and died for democracy and hated the North with a passion. This younger fully democratic generation is like the USA, with half of it's population including it's leader being appeasers.
"If we have already nuked NK or Iran what makes the ChiComs and Russkies think that we wouldn't launch on warning against them?"
Your point is the one of the exact reasons they may launch first.
Map from FAS.
Or NK does a test & makes a joint announcement that they have transfered a similar device to Iran.... on the 22nd.
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