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North Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test
ABC News ^ | 8/17/06 | JONATHAN KARL

Posted on 08/17/2006 2:28:46 PM PDT by finnman69

There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing to for an underground test of nuclear bomb, U.S. officials tell ABC News.

"It is the view of the intelligence community that a test is real possibility," says a senior State Department official.

A senior military official tells ABC News that a U.S. intelligence agency has recently observed "suspicious vehicle movement" at a suspected North Korean test site.

The activity includes the unloading of large reels of cable outside an underground facility called Pungyee-yok in northeast North Korea. Cables can be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside observation equipment. The intelligence was brought to the attention of the White House last week.

Even before this most recent intelligence, there has been growing concern within the U.S. government that North Korea is moving toward a nuclear test. North Korea is believed to have enough nuclear material to build as many as a dozen nuclear bombs, but it has never tested one. A successful test would remove any doubt that North Korea is a nuclear power.

"What does he have to lose?" asked one senior military official, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: august22; dprk; geopolitics; gilju; kilchu; kiljoo; kimjongil; mushroomcloud; nknukes; northkorea; nucleartesting; nukemeplease; nukes; proliferation; pungyeeyok; wmd
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Holy cow. You get the Jack Ryan award for coming up with that tid-bit.

This Tuesday? Hooooo-ly...


41 posted on 08/17/2006 2:49:27 PM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: quantfive


Ahhhhhh strike my earlier post...."WE'RE ALL DOOMED!"


42 posted on 08/17/2006 2:49:43 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: Loyolas Mattman

They did. From the "Dr Strangelove of the East",Doctor AQ Khan.


43 posted on 08/17/2006 2:50:22 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker

That's precisely what I was thinking.


44 posted on 08/17/2006 2:50:58 PM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: AmericanInTokyo


Though I get the context clues...my japanese is kinda rusty...


45 posted on 08/17/2006 2:51:25 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: finnman69
This sounds like a Tom Clancy novel. Let me see,


46 posted on 08/17/2006 2:52:58 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: ichabod1
A nukular test by NJ should be a declaration of nukular war.

Jersey has the bomb? I sure hope Pauly Walnuts doesn't have his finger on the button.

47 posted on 08/17/2006 2:53:08 PM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
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To: finnman69

Any relation to this:

Missile-like metal tube is reported over Hilo Airport
http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/17/news/story08.html


48 posted on 08/17/2006 2:54:08 PM PDT by MonicaG (Praying for our troops, leadership, Israel & IDF. Thanks to our veterans & their families.)
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To: finnman69
Iran and North korea getting hot at the same time. Coincidence? I think not.

Axis of evil?

49 posted on 08/17/2006 2:54:26 PM PDT by SampleMan
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To: finnman69

They had better hurry! I'MANUTJOB of Iran has promised America a "fiery hell" by August 22th!


50 posted on 08/17/2006 2:55:07 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Perdogg

I think we beat the combination of Iran and Iraq in "Executive Orders."


51 posted on 08/17/2006 2:55:16 PM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: Loyolas Mattman
  
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Western nuclear scientists call him the "Johnny Appleseed" of nuclear scientists. You know he is the "father" of the Pakistani bomb.
52 posted on 08/17/2006 2:55:31 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker

Sure that isn't Charlie Rangel?


53 posted on 08/17/2006 2:56:05 PM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: MediaMole
Jersey has the bomb? I sure hope Pauly Walnuts doesn't have his finger on the button.

They had to develop one. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to prevent NYC from using the entire state as a landfill.

54 posted on 08/17/2006 2:56:20 PM PDT by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: AdmSmith
Re #4

Bad but predictable course of action.

55 posted on 08/17/2006 2:58:22 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: in hoc signo vinces

......it just says in Japanese things like he (Kim Jong il) went underground (or out of sight) at such times such as when Bush called initially him a
'tyrant' by name and went forward with UN sanction efforts, when Bush launched the Afghan Campaign and after 9-11, during the massive attack on Baghdad and hot war phases of Iraq, in preparation for the Taepodong launch several years ago, also after the failure of the 6 party talks in Beijing, and now, in connection with the last missile launches and possible nuke activity. he goes underground when he has something up his sleeve or when he is in a corner. we are approach "Day 46" of "Where's the Chia Head"?, i.e. he has been 'missing' and the longest period of time to date was 50 days....


56 posted on 08/17/2006 2:58:27 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: Loyolas Mattman
They do have some resemblance.
     

57 posted on 08/17/2006 2:58:29 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: finnman69

North Korea and Iran are working together on their missile and atomic programs.


58 posted on 08/17/2006 3:00:13 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: Perdogg
It also sounds like one heck of a "24" season.
59 posted on 08/17/2006 3:00:18 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: avacado


Man, that's the South in late August...he's promising something that already exists...


60 posted on 08/17/2006 3:01:14 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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