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North Korea activities show preparations for second nuclear weapons test
AFP via translation | December 20, 2006

Posted on 12/20/2006 9:20:06 PM PST by HAL9000

The North Korea could prepare a new nuclear test

SEOUL - suspect activities were detected in North Korea, suggesting preparations for a new nuclear test after the explosion of the first atomic bomb North-Korean on October 9, indicated to Thursday a South Korean deputy.

“Since the beginning of this month, there were many activities in a tunnel close to the Mantap Mount, in Punggyeri”, 350 km in the North-East of Pyongyang, where the first test took place, indicated Chung Hyung-keun, deputy of the opposition member of a parliamentary commitee on the information.

“Of important building work are in hand over there. The services of Western information regard (this tunnel) as a possible site for a second nuclear test”, it added, quoted by the South Korean agency Yonhap.

The deputy did not quote his sources.

These declarations intervene while continue, in Beijing, of the multi-party talks aiming at convincing the North Korea to give up its atomic arsenal.

The Stalinist mode exploded on October 9 its first bomb atomic. Since then, information multiplied on the possibility of a new underground nuclear test.

Friday, the South Korean Minister for Defense, Kim Jang-soo, had evoked this possibility. “According to services' of information, the North Korea could carry out a second nuclear test on a large scale if the negotiations (in Beijing) do not advance”, it had indicated.

The minister had specified that Pyongyang had ensured its Chinese ally which it did not plan to carry out a second test after that of October 9 but threatened of “adapted” measurements, not specified, in the event of increased pressure on behalf of the international community.

The talks must continue until Friday in Beijing, in spite of the absence of progress. These negotiations join together both Corées, China, the United States, Japan and Russia. They in vain try since August 2003 to convince the communist dictatorship to give up the atomic weapon.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; mushroomcloud; northkorea; nuclearweapons
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1 posted on 12/20/2006 9:20:12 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000; Jet Jaguar; TigerLikesRooster; All

I wonder if chia Pet may do Christmas suprise on us


2 posted on 12/20/2006 9:22:32 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: SevenofNine

He'll be so ronery


3 posted on 12/20/2006 9:26:33 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: JRios1968

That reset won't go away when we finally get of Chia Pet thanks to Team America I wouldn't be suprise if dude has already of course DVD black market copy


4 posted on 12/20/2006 9:36:54 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: SevenofNine

LOL


5 posted on 12/20/2006 9:50:06 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: SevenofNine
I wonder if chia Pet may do Christmas suprise on us

Maybe we'll pull one on him first.

One can only hope.

6 posted on 12/20/2006 10:03:21 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato

OMG I was at CVS store earlier tonight I pass by Chia Pet LOL! first thing I thought of it

Kim Jong 11

OH MAN that be so funny if we attack North Korea on Christmas weekend that be funny it would screw up reporters plans partying in Hamptons

I wonder if Karl Rove telling Dubya to do that

LOL!
Well one thing for sure if Fox news too busy we get SKY news on this coverage


7 posted on 12/20/2006 10:05:53 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: SevenofNine
"OMG I was at CVS store earlier tonight I pass by Chia Pet LOL! first thing I thought of it

Kim Jong 11"


8 posted on 12/20/2006 10:23:32 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: El Gato
Maybe we'll pull one on him first.

Hardly, with the RATS in power! They LOVE HIM!

Oh, I know, we'll send Bubba & Jimmah Carter to talk to him!

9 posted on 12/20/2006 10:36:36 PM PST by blondee123
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10 posted on 12/20/2006 10:51:59 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch

hehehehe


11 posted on 12/20/2006 10:55:50 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus; devolve

Glad you like it monkapotamus!!


12 posted on 12/20/2006 10:57:12 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: SevenofNine

Sanctions & blockade in his face…what's Elvis to do? He'll keep firing duds until he gets a live one.


13 posted on 12/20/2006 11:09:59 PM PST by dgallo51 (DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
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To: blondee123
Maybe we'll pull one on him first.

"Hardly, with the RATS in power! They LOVE HIM!"

The republicans, controlling the House, Senate and presidency, did absolutely nothing. The Democrats can do no less.

14 posted on 12/20/2006 11:33:38 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: HAL9000

A second nuclear weapon test?

Noooo, that can't be true.

Wasn't there some sort of announcement or statement a while back from one of our guys that it was "unacceptable" for NK to have a nuke?

You know, like it is "unacceptable" for Iran to have a nuke?

Ahhh those Six Party Talks will cure everything. No worries.


15 posted on 12/21/2006 2:29:33 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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Another stumbling step closer to national suicide.


16 posted on 12/21/2006 3:25:19 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: mkjessup

What Kim is really doing is solving his problem on keeping the country illuminated at night by irridating the ground with nukes.


17 posted on 12/21/2006 6:04:40 AM PST by freebird5850
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To: HAL9000; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...

Ping!


18 posted on 12/21/2006 6:06:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: HAL9000

Melly Chlistmas, Amelica.


19 posted on 12/21/2006 6:17:20 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
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To: freebird5850
What Kim is really doing is solving his problem on keeping the country illuminated at night by irridating the ground with nukes.

A Roman candle up his ass delivered via a Tomahawk cruise missile will provide plenty of illumination.

But that's just me. :)
20 posted on 12/21/2006 6:47:19 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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