[finnman69]

Iran and North korea getting hot at the same time.

Coincidence? I think not.

[JasonC]

Iran has $100 billion a year in oil revenue, NK has nukes and missile tech but is starving. Do the math.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It seems to be more at these coordinates: 41.1308333 Lat 129.1636111 Long

That would be the village area of Pungyeyok, not too far up north from the Taepodong missile site in Hwadae County along the coast.

[diamond6]

bttt

[trainwriter]

Its funny how when GWB put Iran and North Korea into the Axis of Evil, all the know-it-alls either laughed or cringed.

[The_Reader_David]

Oddly, I think the answer to the question, "What does he have to lose?", the ability to blackmail Japan.

Paradoxically an NK decision to test might be just the thing to push Japan to go nuclear--a process that would take about 5 day according to the Japanese Defense Minister. And if Japan went nuclear, it would have full modern thermonuclear devices about the same time it had its first plutonium device: the Japanese atomic energy agency owns 20 of the world's 100 most powerful supercomputers. You don't need supercomputers for reactor designs, you need them to test weapon design w/o actually detonating one.

[BulletBobCo]

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