Posted on 10/17/2002 9:05:03 PM PDT by 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?
Our *sophistacated* equipment? Idiot lessons about how sensitive our atmospheric *monortoring* satellites are? You want to give me an idiot lesson. I guess you would be the best teacher for that!
Posted by MSCASEY to redrock; FreedomFriend
On News/Activism Oct 15 11:51 AM #669 of 824
Do either of you know when Bush signed whatever he did for the ICC (International Criminal Court)? I believe that with that signature that for a year they cannot grab the soldiers and take them before the court.
Also Saddam already has nukes! About a year ago I saw compelling evidence to show this. Satellite pictures and testimony from a defector.
Also about 3 and half years ago I was flipping through channels about 3 o'clock in the morning and on c-span I ran across the senate in session. It was chilling. I saw these guys flipped out on how far the development of WMD was in countries such as Iran, North Korea and Iraq. According to what was said there these countries already have the technology. This session was about developing our missile defense system. They decided that there was a great need. I guess that now sending ground troops into a country that has egomaniac madman with nuclear capability in place makes sense to most on this sight. I guess they think that he will be kind and nice enough not to use nukes. I guess time will tell. MCD
We sure hope you are right about being 100% positive that Iraq does not already posses nukes and is not going to use them on our boys!!!
Construction on the first reactor started - wait for it - TWO MONTHS AGO. They aren't complete. There are in fact delays in construction because NK is dodging the IAEA inspection regime. Of course, now it's unlikely they'll ever be completed. A relevant link, from Japan's Asahi newspaper:
August 23, 2002 - KEDO Reactor Program Stalled
The type of reactors that are supposed to be built - light-water reactors - are much harder to use to produce fissile material. Incidentally, the construction of the reactors has largely been financed by South Korea and Japan, two countries far more concerned than we with NK's nuclear status.
Snidely
WHAT A CROCK... !!! These things are FUNGIBLE... if the commies are GIVEN money for FOOD etc., or in the form of food, they can use whatever other money they generate or steal for WEAPONS... DUNDERHEADS... every one of these unthinking weenies!
Yes, that thing on the end is actually a nuclear bomb, a model W54 warhead. Yield could be dialed between 0.02 and 1.0 kilotons. That's 1/750th to 1/15th the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
Here's the same warhead packed as a nuclear "land mine", for demolition:
The nuke is the small item on the *left* -- the larger item in the middle is its packing/carrying case.
Ten points for using the word "fungible". :-)
If you'd bother to do some reading instead of just knee-jerking on this thing, you'd find out that the two light-water reactors we (and about a dozen other countries) were gonna build for NK were to replace ones that are produce plutonium far more quickly. To put it more bluntly, they already had nuclear reactors, more dangerous ones. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they even had the fissile material at the time the agreement was signed in 1994.
Seems the idea was on its face a good one. Problem is that the North Korean government decided to backslide and cheat, as Stalinists will. As it stands, they're not likely to get their new reactors completed unless someone (i.e. China) can rein them in.
Snidely
There's more to this story boys and girls. You better believe these goons can hit Washington state, Oregon and even California. During the Clinton years ( I hate to even mention that creeps name)NK splashed a test rocket 300 miles west of the Washington state coast. That little tid bit never made in the press.
After lighting up Bagdad......we need to go scare the beejeebies out of North Korea.
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