[MadIvan]

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

Regards, Ivan

[dr_who_2]

Yes, and the geopolitical er-"orientation" of the French is ambiguous enough for me to wonder how your average Frenchman would react to seeing someone with a rolled up sock stuck in his pants. For all we know, France might decide to end sanctions against North Korea just to give them a sporting chance.

[GOP_1900AD]

It is interesting to me that almost no one in the mainstream wants to "go there" regarding the possibility that the blast was actually larger than seismic measurements indicated, and that P-wave decoupling was used to acheive that exact effect. The reason this is a "don't go there" notion is because during the Test Ban Treaty debates of yore, the ideas of concealment and cheating by the enemies of the West were held up by the usual suspects as "right wing paranoia." There is a lot more riding on this whole thing than the DPRK's nuclear status. What is really riding on it is whether or not the naive utopian dream of nuclear disarmament gets discredited or not.

[SevenofNine]

ROFL or need nuke viagra LOL!

[Suzy Quzy]

LOL!!

[kcar]

The US needs to agree to bilateral talks immediately! That way we sit across the table from them and laugh:

"Do you call that a Nuke?"!

[NewLand]

This may be true, but it's their intent that matters. If left alone, they will develop a nuclear weapon, and they will sell that technology.

[Colorado Doug]

The proposals include stopping trade in any materials which could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction, cargo inspections for goods going in and out of the country, and, in a measure targeted at the country's tiny elite, a ban on luxury goods.

Unbelievable! This should have already been done, yet China and Russia find it too harsh. I guess anything that does not damage the US is too harsh.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Kim il's got some issues: