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To: TigerLikesRooster
Well, this story is off the mark. This was not a Hiroshima type nuke, which was a gun-type uranium, the Little Boy. This was a plutonium implosion-type bomb, like Nagasaki. Why did the writer pick a geologist as their “expert” on nukes?
The yield was very small, about 20% of Nagasaki. It is now suspected that was intentional and in fact planned. They are simply trying to make a nuke small enough for transport by missile and don’t care if the yield is low because of portability measures.
A 4 kilo yield air burst at 800 feet would flatten any downtown core.
16 posted on May 28, 2009 6:57:18 AM PDT by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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N. Korean nuclear blast probably less powerful than hoped for: Yale scholar
Yonhap News ^ | 05/28/09 | Sam Kim
Posted on May 28, 2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
“N. Korean nuclear blast probably less powerful than hoped for: Yale scholar”
By Sam Kim
SEOUL
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Iranian Embassy Officials Visit Different Places of Pyongyang
Korean Central News Agency ^ | May 28, 2009
Posted on May 28, 2009 6:22:50 PM PDT by nuconvert
Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) — Ambassador Morteza Moradian and staff members of the Iranian embassy here Thursday visited the Pyongyang Embroidery Institute on the occasion of the week of DPRK-Iran friendship for commemorating the 20th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung’s meeting with Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
They looked round embroidery production rooms at the institute, being briefed on the fact that its employees have striven to develop the embroidery of Korea.
They also visited the Meari Shooting Gallery and went round several hobby group rooms at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace before enjoying a performance given by members of its art group.