Pyongyang may have A-bomb in 30 days

The Times ^ | December 27, 2002 | Anthony Browne

[MadIvan]

This "useless" reactor was the product of the agreement that Clinton made. OK, so what did Clinton know about this and when did he know it? Either he is a traitor or a hopeless incompetent, or both.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Petronski]

January 2003 will be a very interesting time indeed.

[Happygal]

Never trust anyone who will eat the family pet :-)

[Nitro]

Pyongyang may have A-bomb in 30 days

Then they should have a mushroom cloud in 29...

courtesy of Uncle Sam!!

[Joe Boucher]

Clinton and Carter are responsible for this mess.
NOw we need to take out the reactor before it can produce
enough fuel to power nukes. Enough of bribing the North,
time to stand up to the bully. Time to kick some Morth Korean booty.

[Movemout]

Then they should have a mushroom cloud in 29...

I'd settle for 31...

[MadIvan]

Never trust anyone who will eat the family pet :-)

I think they've reached the point where they'll eat members of their own family, darling. Starvation is that widespread.

Love, Ivan

[Gorzaloon]

RESTARTING its nuclear reactor could enable North Korea to produce nuclear weapons in as little as 30 days, according to one of Britain’s leading nuclear experts.

I am disgusted with these tabloids, and I wish the Crown would start furnishing them with rabies shots. The situation is bad enough without this. Britain has a good nuclear industry and plenty of real experts, and I fail to see what the benefit is to going pub-crawling in order to find a twit like this.

Presupposing that Korea has the infrastructure in place, seperating plutonium, refining, processing, pressing and sintering the material and machining bomb elements and building triggers is something I doubt the US or Britain could turn around in thirty days.

Anything to sell papers. Capitalizing with trash journaism on an issue as serious as this one is borders on being sick.

[MadIvan]

The Times is a broadsheet newspaper, and a highly respected one, not a tabloid.

It's prudent sometimes to listen to the voices of doom, so that doom can be avoided.

Regards, Ivan

[Nitro]

So you want them to be blown to smithereens after they say "A-ha!!"

I can get behind that, I like your willingness to be cruel to our enemies!!

I was gonna hit 'em at "A-MUSHROOM-CLOUD

[Movemout]

So you want them to be blown to smithereens after they say "A-ha!!"

My definition of good timing would be to catch them between the "A"- and the "Ha".

[Nitro]

That is what I attempted to portray...

I think I show the A-

and then MUSHROOM!!

[Nitro]

you could say I laft out the -ha

at the end, but I say

nobody left to say -ha!!

[Gorzaloon]

It's prudent sometimes to listen to the voices of doom, so that doom can be avoided.

Oh, I surely agree! Whatever we are hearing, it is probably very much worse.

Sorry..I jumped to the article and missed that it was the Times, but that heightens my disappointment in the story. I would have expected better from them.

But, ninety days, maybe, stretching it, maybe. That is bad enough.

[MadIvan]

I think it's an unavoidable fact of life that we, meaning Britain and the USA, will have to confront North Korea, like we did together during the Korean War. I suggest that this time we blast them to hell.

Regards, Ivan

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NK's people are starving, but they've got a brand new bomb.
Thanks, Jimmy !

[chuknospam]

I suspect they already have the bomb completed, they just need the Plutonium to finish it.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Looks like we may need to make a brief pit stop in North Korea, on the way to Iraq.