North Korea Reported to Have Tested Nuclear Weapons (U.S. Official Confirms N. Korean Nuclear Test)

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

CNBC Asia, South Korea Wire Services Reporting

[Milwaukee_Guy]

I'm waiting for seismic confirmation and a statement from our government.

I'm still not sure it's the real deal.

[STARWISE]

Hmm .. and FNC said the US govt. said there was no nuclear activity in the area in the last 48 hrs. Wonder which it is.

[COEXERJ145]

Calm down.

Nuclear weapons have existed for 60+ years and we haven't destroyed the world.

Global nuclear war is not going to happen.

[Cold Heat]

The only way to tell for sure is intelligence on the ground. They can fake a conventional explosion and release some radioactivity to fool sensors, but when they get a specific reading on the ground of the type and composition of the radioactivity, they can tell for sure.

[RushCrush]

I call BS on this. For the record.

/ ducks and runs for cover

[grey_whiskers]

And they could presumably do it in a week, given remarks of the Defense Minister, the fact that 20 of the world's 100 most powerful supercomputers belong to the Japanese atomic energy agency, and they are the world's leader in precision machinery.

Overkill here. The US developed nukes in the 1940's with nothing even as powerful as a Pentium 286.

However: NEC rocks!

Cheers!

[NinoFan]

But they also said that it might not register on the USGS's sensors, so no reading isn't necessairly indicative of no test. Of course, there are other ways to tell if a test has been conducted and I'm sure our intelligence agents are looking into those right now.

[TomGuy]

Seoul shares tumble on NKorean nuke test reports




Last Updated: 9-October-2006 04:00:11



At 11:52 am, the KOSPI was down 46.97 points or 3.47 pct at 1,305.03 and the tech-heavy KOSDAQ fell 48.10 points or 8.19 pct to 539.22.

Yonhap News Agency reported, citing a government official, that South Korea has received intelligence that North Korea has conducted its first nuclear test.

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[JennysCool]

And the Hello Kitty edition will be ready by Saturday afternoon.

Very good.

[windchime]

We should have sent Bill Richardson with chocolates and a respectful attitude.....like Clinton did.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Global nuclear war is not going to happen.

Hope not. Somebody must have washed their truck.

[Nav_Mom]

and suddenly, the Foley "scandal" gets reduced to the insignificant "scandal" it was all along....
God bless our Soldiers~!!

[nopardons]

Madame Halfbright gave old Kim the okay and he ran with it. You want to blame someone? Blame the idiots in the Clinton administration..............ALL OF THEM!

Just WHAT did you want President Bush to do...drop nukes on North Korea, without sending anything into the direction of South Korea and Japan and China? If you imagine, for one instant, that this braying, keyboard commando bravado is how anyone in REAL power behaves, you're nuts.

And outside of nuking N.Korea, for no reason,mind, what did you want President Bush to do? There are sever sanctions, we have isolated that country, we have kicked China, in the shins over this, worked steadily behind the scenes with four other nations, as well.

What's "too late" and why is the time so?

[RushCrush]

LOL! Big Hello Kitty fan here!

[ASA Vet]

There are other ways.

[jveritas]

So is it confirmed? The US geological institute just said that they have not detected any significant seismic activities in the Korean Peninsula in the 48 hours as Foxnews is reporting.

[nopardons]

Gertz said the same thing weeks ago, on any program that would have him on.

[Southack]

Right. Again, no seismic event at the time in question (10:36).

[spanalot]

oil is up a buck

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html

[Cold Heat]

The reason it has not happened, is that the caretakers of the existing stockpiles have been relatively sane and measured in their responses.

The reason we are getting closer to a thermonuke war is proliferation. We have always known this day was coming, and Kimmy with a bomb will cause others in the region to make them, just as Iran's possession will cause the Saud's and other to want them as well.