France questions 'failed' Korean nuclear test

The Times ^ | October 11, 2006 | Devika Bhat

[MadIvan]

North Korea may have done the geopolitical equivalent of stuffing a rolled up sock in their underpants.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Joe Boucher]

I have no more confidence in france then I do in North Korea.
Both lead by dirtbags without a clue. Both antiAmerican.

[truth_seeker]

France, experts on small failed explosions.

[NonValueAdded]

France positioning to cast their veto if the UNSC actions have any hope of working. Damn them!

[dfwgator]

And trust me, if there's anyone who knows about military failures, it's the French.

[John Carey]

Announcing the intention to detonate a nuclear device and then not succeeding in achieving more than a large conventional explosion, it seems to us, is the difference between rape and attempted rape. Both are heinous. One is just not a completed act.

On Wednesday, North Korea's Foreign Ministry said, "If the U.S. keeps pestering us and increases pressure, we will regard it as a declaration of war and will take a series of physical corresponding measures," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

If their test was not sucessful I am not surprised.

But that doesn't make me feel any safer about the regime either.

[gogogodzilla]

We should believe France's statement...

...for what other country has more experience in failure?

:-P

[rfp1234]

Gosh darn it, at first glance the headline looked like
'France questions failed KORAN nuclear test'...

[kingu]

Leaders in Seoul appeared to have accepted that they will have to live with a nuclear North Korea — at least until Washington can be persuaded to engage in direct talks with the isolated Stalinist state.

Yeah, umm, what the heck does Washington have to do with anything? Everybody make nice with each other so we can go home, please?

The real translation is: We long for the day when the United States will again go back to bribing North Korea into acting like civilized people.

[Diogenesis]

Maybe the French know something.
Could some French missiles to Iraq have gone through Iran to KFR?

=========== French missiles FIRST given to Iraq to be USED Against US and Coalition Heroes =========

French missiles found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

Froggies said they did not say "2003". LOL. Decide for yourself.

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Iraqi missiles given to, and now located in, Syria:

[Paloma_55]

North Korea may have done the geopolitical equivalent of stuffing a rolled up sock in their underpants.

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And worse yet, putting it in the back...

[kingu]

...for what other country has more experience in failure?

And for their rather extensive knowledge of nuclear weapons, as well as the third largest stockpile of nuclear arms on the planet.

[Buck W.]

France is now asking NK for permission to retract the surrender they issued immediately after the explosion.

[backtothestreets]

Everyone has to get on the same page. There was an explosion. North Korea claimed it was nuclear. Regardless of size, the North Korean claim should be accepted and North Korea dealt with harshly and quickly.

[Lekker 1]

The more I hear about the NK nuke, the more I am convinced that all they did was surround a quantity of fissionable material with several tons of conventional explosives in hopes that it would work like the real thing. Maybe that's how their schools over there teach it.

[daisyann]

You're right. We aren't gonna do anything about it so what difference does it make? We are going to beg a resolution from the UN and the Chicoms. It is disheartening.

[RightWhale]

compress the plutonium and fire a neutron into the mass

Aha! So that's how they do it!

[river rat]

I wish we were half the bastard the world believes us to be....

Then perhaps we would blow the little North Korean prick to hell, assassinate Chavez, Castro, Assad, al Sadr and the current Iranian chief prick --- then sit back in wonder, denying everything.

Semper Fi

[MadIvan]

If the United States was that much of a bastard, I suggest the terrorists and rogue regimes would be keeping their mouths shut.

Regards, Ivan