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2006-10-09 China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea claims to have blown up an A-Bomb!
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Posted by 3dc 2006-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1  'North Korea claims to have blown up an A-Bomb!

winners

1st) China

2nd) Iran

3rd) the other America haters



Posted by RD 2006-10-09 00:22||   2006-10-09 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 China serious loser. Serious loss of face.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-10-09 00:23|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2006-10-09 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Russians > Bomb device is approxi 10 foot long + weighs 4 tons. IONews, PRAVDA > LARGE COMET TO HIT EARTH IN LATE OCTOBER. Milyuhns to die, Tsunamis + Destruction to be caused.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-09 00:24||   2006-10-09 00:24|| Front Page Top

#4 North Korea detonates an A-Bomb!

Kojo fetch me the démarche stationery!
Posted by Kofi 2006-10-09 00:29||   2006-10-09 00:29|| Front Page Top

#5 JOE! IONews, PRAVDA > LARGE COMET TO HIT EARTH IN LATE OCTOBER. Milyuhns to die, Tsunamis + Destruction to be caused.

LOL!
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 00:31||   2006-10-09 00:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Move comments to .com's post
Posted by 3dc 2006-10-09 00:34||   2006-10-09 00:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Move to 3dc's, lol.
Posted by .com 2006-10-09 00:35||   2006-10-09 00:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Trainwreck! Trainwreck!

Lol.
Posted by .com 2006-10-09 00:35||   2006-10-09 00:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I asked mods to delete this one.
Posted by 3dc 2006-10-09 00:37||   2006-10-09 00:37|| Front Page Top

#10 
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 01:09||   2006-10-09 01:09|| Front Page Top

#11 
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 01:21||   2006-10-09 01:21|| Front Page Top

#12 South Korea Stocks Plunge on Nuke Report

South Korean stocks plunged Monday following North Korea's announcement that it conducted a nuclear test.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index, or Kospi, fell as low as 1,303.62, or 3.6 percent after North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said the underground test was performed successfully.

The Kospi was trading 2.6 percent lower at 1,316.39 at 1:10 p.m. in Seoul.

BaWaaaaaaa! >:-) and it's all the Sorks care about too!

Markets in South Korea, the world's 10th-largest economy, have long been considered vulnerable to potential geopolitical risks emanating from the North. The two countries, which fought the 1950-53 Korean War, are divided by the world's most heavily armed border.

North Korea said last week that it planned to carry out a test. Reports of Monday's test have yet to be independently confirmed.

An official at South Korea's seismic monitoring center said a magnitude 3.6 tremor felt at the time of the alleged test wasn't a natural occurrence. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition his name not be used, because he wasn't authorized to provide sensitive information to the media.

South Korea's Defense Ministry said the alert level of the military has been raised in response to the claimed nuclear test.
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 01:26||   2006-10-09 01:26|| Front Page Top

#13 A timeline on nuclear weapons development in North Korea:

_1993: North Korea shocks world by saying it will quit Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.

_1994: North Korea, United States sign agreement in Geneva, North pledges to freeze, eventually dismantle, nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.

_Sept. 17, 1999: U.S. President Bill Clinton agrees to first major easing of economic sanctions against North Korea since Korean War's end in 1953.

_July 2000: North Korea threatens to restart nuclear program if Washington does not compensate for loss of electricity due to delays in building nuclear power plants.

_June 2001: North Korea warns it will reconsider missile test moratorium if Washington doesn't resume contacts aimed at normalizing relations.

_July 2001: U.S. State Department reports North Korea developing long-range missile.

_December 2001: President Bush warns Iraq and North Korea will be "held accountable" if they develop weapons of mass destruction.

_Jan. 29, 2002: Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an "axis of evil."

_Oct. 4, 2002: North Korea tells visiting U.S. delegation it has a second covert nuclear weapons program, Washington says.

_Nov. 11, 2002: U.S. and key Asian allies - Japan, South Korea - halt oil supplies to North promised in 1994 deal.

_Jan. 10, 2003: North Korea says it will withdraw from Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

_April 16, 2003: U.S., Chinese and North Korean officials announce talks in Beijing aimed at ending nuclear standoff.

_April 24, 2003: North Korea says it has nuclear weapons and may test, export or use them depending on U.S. actions, Washington says.

_Aug. 27-29, 2003: North Korea joins first round of six-nation nuclear talks in Beijing, which include China, U.S. Japan, Russia and South Korea.

_Feb. 25-28, 2004: Second round of six-nation talks.

_June 23-26, 2004: Third round of six-nation talks.

_September 2004: North Korea refuses to attend fourth round talks, accusing U.S. of "hostile" policies.

_Feb. 10, 2005: North Korea announces it has nuclear weapons.

_July 26, 2005: Fourth round of six-nation talks begins, ends in recess after 13 days with no agreement.

_Sept. 13, 2005: Talks resume.

_Sept. 15, 2005: U.S. blacklists a Macau-based bank for alleged involvement in North Korea's illicit activity such as money laundering and counterfeiting, leads the bank to freeze North Korean assets.

_Sept. 19, 2005: North Korea pledges to dismantle nuclear programs in exchange for pledges of energy assistance; U.S. pledges not to invade and to respect North's sovereignty in an agreement ending talks.

_Nov. 9-11, 2005: Fifth round of six-nation talks.

_Jan. 3, 2006: North Korea says it won't return to talks unless the U.S. lifts financial restrictions imposed for its alleged currency counterfeiting and other illegal activities.

_March 7: North Korean, U.S. officials meet in New York for talks over U.S. financial restrictions.

_July 5: North Korea launches seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2, drawing international condemnation an a later U.N. Security Council resolution condemning it.

_Sept. 26: North Korea rejects further talks on its nuclear program, claims Washington wants to rule the world.

_Oct. 3: North Korea says it will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was "the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war."

_Oct. 9: North Koreas says it has conducted its first-ever nuclear test.

Posted by RD 2006-10-09 01:35||   2006-10-09 01:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Anyone willing to bet that South Korea has learned its lesson about appeasing Kim?

[crickets]
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-09 01:38||   2006-10-09 01:38|| Front Page Top

#15 file under, who writes the headlines to articles, the editor or writer?

here it is: The Associated Press

North Korea nuke test fans fears of East Asian nuclear arms race

SEOUL, South Korea Officials from Washington to Seoul are raising the specter of an Asian nuclear arms race if North Korea fulfills its brazen threat to test its first atomic bomb and join the elite club of nuclear powers.

South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said that a test could give Japan a "pretext" to go nuclear next, triggering countermoves by suspicious Asian neighbors in a cascade that upends regional security.

While an arms race is unlikely to dawn the day after a test, long term anxiety abounds....

****

re: AP, refer to comment # 3
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 01:52||   2006-10-09 01:52|| Front Page Top

#16 SPOD: China serious loser. Serious loss of face.

Just like the good cop loses face when the bad cop slaps the prisoner around, right? My take is that China is playing the good cop, whereas North Korea is playing the bad cop - i.e. they're part of a team with China at the lead. Who's the prisoner? I'll give you three guesses...
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-10-09 01:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-10-09 01:56|| Front Page Top

#17 "The nuclear test was conducted with indigenous wisdom and technology 100 percent,"

Posted by Kimmie 2006-10-09 02:02||   2006-10-09 02:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Lol, they all say that, poofy.
Posted by .com 2006-10-09 02:07||   2006-10-09 02:07|| Front Page Top

#19 walking Hats and Asshat
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 02:09||   2006-10-09 02:09|| Front Page Top

#20 dem Norks have that strack squared away look eh!
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 02:19||   2006-10-09 02:19|| Front Page Top

#21 There's only one of 'em packing any poundage...
Posted by .com 2006-10-09 02:25||   2006-10-09 02:25|| Front Page Top

#22 There's only one of 'em packing any poundage...

LOL!

Pudgy Kim has been eating all the table scraps while his big Hats have been on that famous Nork slim-fast diet!
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 02:35||   2006-10-09 02:35|| Front Page Top

#23 Can anybody spot any sidearms on Kim's goon squad? You get pretty good profiles of both people walking behind Kim on the left and right. I don't see a holster between them. No speed loaders on their belts, nothing! These saps are decorative.

dem Norks have that strack squared away look eh!

More like: "Yond goon squad has a lean and hungry look; Their stomachs growl too much: such men are dangerous."
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-09 03:06||   2006-10-09 03:06|| Front Page Top

#24 shoulda put a sarcasm tag on that strack look!
;-)
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 03:18||   2006-10-09 03:18|| Front Page Top

#25 
Posted by RD 2006-10-09 03:44||   2006-10-09 03:44|| Front Page Top

#26 So, the big question still remains; What to do about the real puppet master in all of this? Namely, communist China. This whole diplomatic catastrophe is entirely of their doing and they need to be faced with severe economic sanctions for abetting in this trainwreck.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-09 04:04||   2006-10-09 04:04|| Front Page Top

#27 Time for us to give the "generals" the high-sign. Strangle the little twit with your bare hands, if need be. Tell the people he was overcome with joy - or some such shit - and expired of a heart attack. Then move your shithole away from the precipice. This is your big chance to save your families - and your ass.
/PSA
Posted by .com 2006-10-09 04:12||   2006-10-09 04:12|| Front Page Top

#28 Bingo, .com.

Upon reflection, it just occured to me that this is the perfect time to go in and bomb the crap out of North Korea.

By letting off this dud, Kim has just dropped his pants in the snow. His physicists obviously lack sufficient skill to properly detonate their stores of fissile material and between now and the next possible test North Korea is effectively as vulnerable as they ever will be in a military sense.

One can only speculate if an enraged Kim has just trooped out some of his senior scientists to the nearest wall for execution. All the better for us if he has been stupid enough to do that. If Kim has any brains, he built a couple of these sick puppies and should bang off another one in rapid succession to prove he's got some real nuclear firepower.

Otherwise, all he's done is drop his drawers in full view of the world.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-09 04:22||   2006-10-09 04:22|| Front Page Top

#29 A view from the other side by Kim Myong Chol ("Unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.)
Posted by tipper 2006-10-09 13:21||   2006-10-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#30 Thanks, tipper, but I had to stop reading at:
"The DPRK is now the fourth-most powerful nuclear weapons state just after the US, Russia, and China. The DPRK has all types of nuclear bombs and warheads, atomic, hydrogen and neutron, and the means of delivery, short-range, medium-range and long-range, putting the whole of the continental US within effective range."
It's just too silly, given their lack of knowledge of other nuclear powers (Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel...) and their wild claims based on missiles that don't shoot straight and A-bombs that go "pop".
Posted by Dear Reader 2006-10-09 19:50||   2006-10-09 19:50|| Front Page Top

#31 Oops.
Posted by Darrell 2006-10-09 19:51||   2006-10-09 19:51|| Front Page Top

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