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| N. Korea Air Sample Has No Radioactivity |
| 2006-10-13 |
| Results from an initial air sampling after North Korea's announced nuclear test showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said Friday. The test results do not necessarily mean the North Korean blast was not a nuclear explosion, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the sampling results. The official described the results as the State Department announced that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to China, South Korea and Japan next week to discuss steps to be taken to pressure North Korea to drop its nuclear efforts and to assess the security situation in the region. Rice's trip is the next step in the U.S. diplomatic offensive at the United Nations and with Pyongyang's neighbors. Members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Friday on the wording of a resolution that would clamp sanctions on the communist country. The draft, which U.S. officials said they hoped would be approved on Saturday, would authorize non-military sanctions against the North, and says that any further action the council might want to take would require another U.N. resolution. It also eliminates a blanket arms embargo from a tougher, previous draft, instead targeting specific equipment for sanctions including missiles, tanks, warships and combat aircraft. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that on Rice's trip, "she's going to be talking about the passage of that resolution certainly, but really what comes after. She's going to be talking about how to go about actually implementing that resolution." The U.S. government remains uncertain of the nature of the underground explosion Monday trumpeted by North Korea as a nuclear test. The air sampling tends to reinforce earlier doubts about whether the test blast was entirely successful, officials said. Data from seismic sensors indicated the explosion was smaller than expected |
| Posted by:Jim Traficant |
| #2 FREEREPUBLIC.com > SLASHDOT.org > technical analyses = test was a either a fizzled "normal" nuke device, or a successful one for MANY SMALL NUKE BOMBS/BOMBLETS, i.e. Mini-nukes. MANY SMALL BOMBS/BOMBLETS strongly implies proliferation resulting in either WORLD-WIDE AYMMETRIC NUCLEAR TERROR andor LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR [mostly concventional forces]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-10-13 22:15 |
| #1 Drudge says that the US is now reporting positive radiation results. Hope this thing was not the trigger for an H-bomb. Suggest we pull back from the DMZ and waste Kimmie before we find out the hard way. |
| Posted by: JAB 2006-10-13 19:33 |