BREAKING - South Korean newspapers report North Korean nuclear test

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021018/168/2gup3.html ^ | 10/18/02 | AP

[Diogenesis]

BREAKING - South Koreans this morning are reading in their newspapers that North Korea
undertook a nuclear test in the last three months.
Is this the reason for the admission of breaking the Agreement yesterday?

[ApesForEvolution]

Yes, I thought the world was soon ending when I heard the watermelon-esque 'world's only superpower isn't good' rationale, with the main course of selling wmd technology to Red China (you red bastards that are reading this beware - we have a surprise waiting for you that you DON'T know about).

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thermal imaging is the way the sudden temperature is detected

Again, that would take a satellite directly over the site. Wouldn't it?

[justshe]

Almond Joy is a nut, but Mounds is not.

Beat 'cha ! 8o)

[ApesForEvolution]

Couldn't help myself :)

[MJY1288]

No they don't have hydrogen bombs. There is no reason to test a dirty nuke, You or I could assemble one of them from depleated uranium or radioactive material from any hospitol. Wrap explosives around the radioactive material and detonate it, and that's how easy it is

[John Lenin]

My guess is we will not act unless it looks like they are going to act. And we always have to port strike as a backup weapon.

[RnMomof7]

I happen to think a nation that has a nuclear bomb AND a delivery system to get it here might be a threat ..but we can pretend it isn't if it makes you feel better:>)...

[Joe Hadenuf]

There isn't an underground nuke detonated in the world that goes unnoticed with all the equipment laying at the bottom over every ocean, everywhere. You thought they were just laying f-o cable around the world, did you?

For the most part yes. And no, I don't believe that we cover every region of the worlds oceans with bomb detecting sensors.

[ApesForEvolution]

Still? I thought at the very least after God spared our boys and girls in that recon 'take down', that cost that stupid chicom his plane, that we told the Red Rats to pound dirt?! Get ALL friggin communists out of America's military NOW! New Order of the World bs.

[John Lenin]

Yes, cut them off at the pass with a port strike. No doubt the Chinese blinked a few weeks ago.

[MissAmericanPie]

I'll try to find the article again, I read it here on FR. so it has to be in the archives, I'll toss some key words around and hit on it, I hope.

[kayak]

GAG ALERT!

Interview with Roger Clinton on his Pyongyang visit ... [note: the article is from 1999]

[ApesForEvolution]

Neutron bombs if the Red Chinks have anything to do with it. Yes, that's right: Red Communist Chinese are Chinks, Spooks, Gooks, etc. I'm working on my Red Communist Koreans derogatories.

The rest of the Chinese population have my admiration.

[#3Fan]

A big time North Korea Nuclear test ping. Broke 12 P.M. Eastern time Thursday.

I wonder if the NYTimes editorial board is crapping their pants about now.

[El Gato]

Wrong ! There are 30,000 US troops with super high tech weapons and we could devastate them in no time.

Those 30,000 troops are nothing but a speed bump. The "high tech" weapons are not enough of a force multiplier to assure such an easy victory as you indicate. The exception being those with nukes, if any that is, since I'm not sure we have any deployed tactical nukes at this time. We have the strategic ones of course, mostly sitting in Boomers hiding in the ocean, alhtough those have been cut back too. Plus a few land based Minuteman and Peacekeeper missles. The Minutman are being converted to a single warhead from a 3 warhead MIRV, and the Peacekeepers are being withdrawn from service, even though they are decades newer than the Minutemen. Maybe it would be a good idea to pull some of those tactical nukes out of storage, and/or divert a few B-1Bs that are currently slated for the boneyard (30%+ of the total force) and send them to sit strip alert in S. Korea, loaded with gravity bombs. Of course the money to operate them isn't there, the money saved by mothballing the 30% is slated to keep the others flying, including funding some upgrades and other long needed maintence type stuff.

It's begining to look like JeffHead's 3rd and later installments of his book series may be be obsolete before he gets them written, printed and into distribution. Scary, very scary.

[ApesForEvolution]

...your trip in fantasyville expires in 30, 29, 28, 27, 26...

[MJY1288]

Nope, Most all of our weather forecasting is done with thermal imaging from satellites. We have lots of satellites out in space, Not to mention EP-3's, AWAC's and many other ways to monitor the planet

[RLK]

Sad part about it Kim Jong been giving food to his soldiers instead of his starving people because of overfarming drought for two years in the row there is nothing to eat there That sad case so Kim is building his weapons while people are starving he is worst than Stalin in my opinionp

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There is a serious lesson in that. It tells us that we are dealing with a madness which is willing to sacrifice it's own population. Such a ruthlessness and madness would have have no reservations about killing people next door or thousands of miles away once creating equipment to do it.

[El Gato]

There is no such thing as a minor nuclear explosion

There is such a thing as a micro nuke, much smaller than the Hiroshimi and Nagasaki weapons, but they are likely well beyond the capabilties of the N. Koreans and even the Chinese.

[Cindy]

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