North Korea Reported to Have Tested Nuclear Weapons (U.S. Official Confirms N. Korean Nuclear Test)

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

CNBC Asia, South Korea Wire Services Reporting

[mx5]

Better centered map (nothing yet): Link

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Reagan: "If not now, When?"

[silentknight]

How useless is everyone in the world? Can the world do NOTHING right? I don't know where we go from here...but it isn't good.

[bitt]

"ah, good...now maybe that hot chick Cher will look at me..."

[Southack]

Here's the South Korean seismogram from today:

There was a seismic event. Note, however, that it lasts for several minutes (nukes are over pretty fast, in comparison).

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/INCN_24hr.html

[FairOpinion]

Now N. Korea itself says it conducted a successful test.




North Korea says nuclear test successful 3 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear

[Strategerist]

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for something to show up on that map - outside the US, the USGS doesn't bother to plot quakes as small as 3.5.

[danamco]

Are you Nordic???

[HAL9000]

Yonhap News

N. Korea says it conducts nuclear test sucessfully

SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday successfully conducted an underground test of its nuclear weapons, the country's state media said.

[justa-hairyape]

Iran will be next...then what?

War is coming. Not the tit for tat Iraq and Afghanistan kind. Serious war. Draft et. al.. Kim will now try to blackmail South Korea to join the North and become one.

[furquhart]

Hit them now!

They don't have the ability to reach American soil. The US troop footprint in the RoK is low and can be dispersed.

Our majority - and taking down that regime - is worth Seoul.

[Candor7]

False Alarm. It was Kim Jung Il being ill with gastritus. Apparently he broke wind so viciously that the concussion caused a Kim Chi scented fog to permeate the presidential palace, setting of gas alarms and creating earth tremors that made wierd readings on the world's seizmometers.

The Seismologists don't know what to make of it, thus the paucity of reports from the MSM Slimes who fear that the Dems have just lost the house on a gaseous security issue.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS.

[mx5]

Good point - I don't follow the USGS closely. It might not show up if you're right.

[HAL9000]

Kyodo News -

Oct.09 12:01 N. Korea successfully conducts nuke test: KCNA
Oct.09 11:45 S. Korea official says N. Korea may have conducted nuke test: Yonhap

[ghostmonkey]

THE STINKING COMMUNIST RATS ON CNN ARE SPINNING THIS AS THE FAULT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!! THAT COMMUNIST RAT ANCHORWOMAN ON CNN ACTUALLY STATED THAT THIS WAS A RESULT OF U.S. "INSTIGATION"!!!!!

I AM GOING TO BE SICK. THESE COMMIE RATS IN THE MEDIA NEED TO BE STOPPED!!!

[silentknight]

A new world order is upon us...

Asia will have to arm itself and the Middle East is going to do the same.

Dark days ahead...

[thoughtomator]

Conveniently, we're well prepared with a lot of people with extensive experience in doing just that.

[rjp2005]

If NK peformed a test, Iran did as well in proxy. They use the same technology. Iran gets free information about their own technology without having to face the consequences of a test on their own soil.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

BOOOM to the thread,,,

[thoughtomator]

Is there any way to determine the yield of the blast from the seismograph?