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N. Korea says it conducts successful powerful H-bomb test
Associated Press ^ | January 5th, 2016 | By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG

Posted on 01/05/2016 8:26:48 PM PST by Mariner

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would put Pyongyang a big step closer toward improving its still-limited nuclear arsenal.

A television anchor read a typically propaganda-heavy statement on state TV that said North Korea had tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, elevating the country's "nuclear might to the next level" and providing it with a weapon to defend against the United States and its other enemies.

The statement said the test was a "perfect success."

The test, if confirmed by outside experts, will lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations and further worsen already abysmal relations between Pyongyang and its neighbors.

North Korean nuclear tests worry Washington and others because each new blast is seen as pushing North Korea's scientists and engineers closer to their goal of an arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; dprk; hbomb; hydrogenbomb; japan; korea; nknukes; nkorea; norks; northkorea; obamalegacy; pyongyang; republicofkorea; test; trump; trumpwasright; worldwarthree
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To: Mariner

This is good news.

Finally they’ll be able to stand up to evil, racist Americans who vote for Trump. :)

/sarc(????)


61 posted on 01/06/2016 12:35:27 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Mariner

What do the people of South Korea think of us now?


62 posted on 01/06/2016 12:35:48 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Mariner

The Norks learned from an American president, who threatened them with nukes in 1953 to force concessions at a negotiating table leading to armistice in the Korean War.

Dwight Eisenhower taught the Kim regime a lesson and decades later they want to use nukes and threats to get us to a negotiating table to give them the goodies they need to prop up their failed communist economy.


63 posted on 01/06/2016 12:41:57 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Mariner

Get back to me when our military confirms it.


64 posted on 01/06/2016 2:00:59 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Jeffrey Lewis https://twitter.com/armscontrolwonk and Andy Frassetto https://twitter.com/drrocks1982 have useful info and will for sure post more the coming days.
65 posted on 01/06/2016 2:49:25 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: SunkenCiv

That wouldn’t be the railyard explosion near the Chinese boarder? It was huge - nearly getting Dear Leader who had, unfortuanately, vacated the area and his armored train some time prior.


66 posted on 01/06/2016 2:58:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Mariner

Is all that NEST data from the Los Alamos hard drive coming home to roost? (The one they ‘found’ a month after they discovered it was missing, behind the copy machine.)


67 posted on 01/06/2016 3:35:50 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Good acting. Where were the tears when domestic Islamic terrorists killed Americans?


68 posted on 01/06/2016 3:36:40 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: yadent

Yep.


69 posted on 01/06/2016 3:42:18 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Mariner
That's okay, the world is ‘nuclear’ neutral as far as Obama is concerned since he has done what he could to reduce our arsenal.
70 posted on 01/06/2016 3:44:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: FredZarguna

But they have Russian “helpers” I’m afraid.


71 posted on 01/06/2016 3:51:20 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: gleeaikin

Does Kim-Il ill really care about his subjects who live and eat the dirt around the test site?


72 posted on 01/06/2016 3:54:03 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: FredZarguna

The Russians or Chinese might not be serious about actually arming North Korea, hence the lack of ballistic missile tech transfer.

However, they might figure with what is going on in the Ukraine and the South China Sea, North Korea having the H-bomb might be a useful distraction for them, lack of long-range delivery vehicle or not.


73 posted on 01/06/2016 4:34:56 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: Mariner

Thnaks, Bill Clinton. Thanks, Maddy Albright.


74 posted on 01/06/2016 5:08:35 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Norm Lenhart

LMAO. Kinda sounds like lil’ Kim.


75 posted on 01/06/2016 5:24:00 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Mariner

Thanks Obama!


76 posted on 01/06/2016 5:58:44 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: dragnet2

That is America. The pinnacle of self obsessed narcissism. A feckless, unaccomplished, phony and grifter, hollowing out the great things built by far better.

PUKE


77 posted on 01/06/2016 6:01:10 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Mariner

“The test, if confirmed by outside experts, will lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations”

I’m sure this will have North Korea shaking in their boots.


78 posted on 01/06/2016 6:06:28 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Uncle Kim’s birthday is Jan 8


79 posted on 01/06/2016 6:16:27 AM PST by lancium
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To: Mariner

Well if they really have I’m sure they will put one up for sale. I’ve heard ISIS has tons of cash on hand from selling oil.


80 posted on 01/06/2016 6:16:51 AM PST by CodeJockey
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