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2004-09-12 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-09-12 1:07:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, We've all waited for the other "Kimmy Shoe" to drop, and now it has!! It's poker time now,,, The US has got to put up or shut up! Damn if Bush wasn't right on, with the Axis Of Evil! Iran Next!!!

Posted by smn 2004-09-12 1:12:16 AM|| 2004-09-12 1:12:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 NAN.

Not A Nuke.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 1:34:09 AM|| 2004-09-12 1:34:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 IF this was a nuclear explosion there would be plenty on noise about this. It was a convertional explosion or a huge industrial accident.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-12 1:37:33 AM|| 2004-09-12 1:37:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 NAN.

That a personal opinion or a professional one? Awful lot of stuff going "boom" in Norkland these days. Seems like the probability of all of these being industrial accidents is becoming vanishingly small. :)

Posted by AzCat 2004-09-12 1:46:18 AM|| 2004-09-12 1:46:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Oldspook, I don't remember, but were you around here during the last suspected nuclear explosion in North Korea?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-09-12 1:47:13 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-09-12 1:47:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The missile base in that area is underground, so possibly a catastrophic explosion of a few of these missiles underground could vent explosive gases upwards at some velocity, causing a mushroom cloud.

Posted by Lux 2004-09-12 8:47:54 AM|| 2004-09-12 8:47:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lux, thats a very good supposition.

And, given the silence of the Juche Publicity Machine, its very plausible.

forest fire = they blame the US for it.
they do a nuke = they brag about it.

They hose up their own missle storage facility, which "doesn't exist because Dear Leader says so", and you get silence.

Just think what happens when you maintain large amounts of stored rocket fuel components, and have someone get careless...

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 10:46:24 AM|| 2004-09-12 10:46:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 easy enough to sample the air and tell if radiation was released even if sampled from Japan. Agreed: Not a nuke, or jucheland would be having parades and confetti

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-12 11:02:21 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:02:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Did some digging. Here's a bit of open source unclassified geography lesson for you guys.

Yongjo-ri is in the area of the explosion.

This area is known for its munitions factories and has several rail lines that form a nexus there.

The Rodong/Nodong missle factories and storage depots are also within 10Km of this town.

Draw your own conclusion.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 11:40:52 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:40:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 easy enough to sample the air and tell if radiation was released even if sampled from Japan.

End of story.

#9 This area is known for its munitions factories and has several rail lines that form a nexus there.

All the ingredients for another Iranian-style train bomb.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-12 2:33:29 PM|| 2004-09-12 2:33:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 We have seismometers up the ying yang in SKor. I am sure that we are sampling the cloud just to be sure in NKor. A UAV would be good for this little job. We will be able to surmise what components made the explosion. We ain't gonna say nothin' for now.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-12 3:00:29 PM|| 2004-09-12 3:00:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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