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

[mystery-ak]

Fox is saying Rice will go to the UN.........sheeeeesh!

[newzjunkey]

If they decide on Monday to become a nuclear power they'll have a bomb by Friday afternoon.

And the Hello Kitty edition will be ready by Saturday afternoon.

[COEXERJ145]

The big spike on a lot of those is probably the 6.2 quake in Tonga.

[bitt]

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/08/report-north-korea-tests-nuke/

[The_Reader_David]

Oh, and I forgot to mention Japan's plutonium stockpile and work on fusion power.

[Southack]

"NK claims the test was hours earlier (10:36am NK time)."

Nothing at that time. The seismic event was at 14:27.

[eyespysomething]

Tossing this out there-

What if it was a failed test? I mean, didn't NK claim that all of their missiles succeeded?

[af_vet_1981]

End the nuclear regime, set a prescedent,

Yep, time for Shock and Awe to preserve civilization.

I always costs more lives to wait until they attack first.

[NinoFan]

In Seoul a foreign ministry spokesman said South Korea’s intelligence agency has detected a 3.58-magnitude seismic tremor, following North Korea’s announcement of a nuclear test. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/09102006/323/north-korea-conducts-first-nuclear-test-official.html

[sageb1]

Too bad we can't blow that photo up and put it at the top of the thread.

[newzjunkey]

White House is drafting a UN Security Council resolution for sanctions which may include a Naval blockade.

Clearly China's either unable or unwilling to control NK.

The MSM will blame Bush rather than the infamous "six-party talks" the Rats demanded.

[HAL9000]

Yonhap News -

N. Korea tests nuclear weapon at Hwadaeri near Kilju: Defense Ministry

SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is believed to have tested a nuclear weapon in the eastern part of the country Monday morning, a South Korean defense source said.

"We detected the explosive sound from Hwadaeri near Kilju in North Hamgyong Province at 10:36 a.m.(KST)," a senior Defense Ministry official said, asking to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the information.

But South Korea's military has yet to raise its alert level beyond usual defense situations, he said. The troops are still maintaining a Watchcon 3 surveillance status and Defcon 4 defense readiness status.

[TomGuy]

Fox is saying Rice will go to the UN.........

It will be interesting to see what does happen. All the 'bluster' when NK was shooting missiles a few weeks ago turned out to be empty rhetoric.

[Lurker]

Here's more data from Japan:

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[justa-hairyape]

Now it is too late.

Not really. What this actually means is that a war with nukes is now guaranteed to occur in our future. Better that they go off over there then here. SDI now. Do not even listen to the IDIOTIC dimwits anymore. Vote em out of office !

[red flanker]

Are you sure it was nuclear...or was it Kim's gigantic stash of kimchee that went fermi-nuclear (where fermentation of cabbage undergoes critical?)

Big Boy Kimchee stash that later went fermi-nuclear

[silentknight]

This just makes me so mad. What kind of world are all kids going to inherit? We are either at war or we are not. It is time to ACT like we mean what we say. President Bush has ALWAYS said what he means. This is not a time to not act. This is the time to act. Iran is next.

[windchime]

USGS indicated no seismic activity for the last 48 hours, according to Fox report.

Secretary Rumsfeld was asked, "would we know?". He said we would know. This from Bret Baer, Fox.

[newzjunkey]

It isn't clear that it was a success. They just claim it was. At this point the test time they claim is not reflected in a spike in seismic activity that would have been expected.

[jimbo123]