Posted on 03/12/2017 3:38:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea excavating tunnel for far more powerful nuclear test: 38 North
There are signs Pyongyang could be laying the groundwork for the biggest nuclear test to date.
According to U.S.-based North Korea monitoring website 38 North the regime is excavating a tunnel at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site, which may support an explosion up to 14 times more powerful than the lastest one.
There's been increased activities at the area, where the last four of the five underground tests by the communist state were conducted.
Experts say the excavation will allow the hermit kingdom to support additional underground nuke tests of more than 280 kilotons a much grander scale than the latest one in September 2016 coming in at some 20 kilotons.
Long, agonizingly long past the time for putting the North Korean citizenry out of their misery and remove that bogus nation from the maps.
Either that or go after that little fat nut case and do to him what he did to his half-brother and his uncle.
Time for a workplace accident.
Ship Bill Clinton there first.
Building an implosion-style plutonium-based atomic bomb is one thing. But building a multistage thermonuclear bomb is quite something else, and we don’t know if the North Koreans have mastered the manufacture of lithium deuteride and incorporating the extremely complex technology necessary to build a thermonuclear bomb in the 200 KT range.
Stop the madman now before he kills many again.
North Korea tried to sell nuclear weapons material to make miniaturized warhead: U.N. inspectors
Experts believe the fact that North Korea is producing Lithium-6 is proof they are attempting to miniaturize nuclear warheads to place on the ICBMs they have been testing repeatedly over recent months.
“Lithium-6 is ideal, not only for making tritium for boosting fission devices, but also for directly fueling advanced weapons—including thermonuclear bombs,” said Henry Sokolski, a former Pentagon official who heads the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington think tank, reported Fox News.
WE can hope he miss calculates and sets off a 12,000 KT bomb in his backyard.
Indeed. Let us all make sure to give Bill Clinton the proper credit for giving North Korea the green light to develop their nuclear weapons program.
Let us never forget that Bill Clinton not only allowed North Korea to push forward with a nuclear bomb program, but he gave technical assistance to China to develop long-range missiles. Then he did what he could to exacerbate the scandal over Monica Lewinsky to distract the American public away from his assaults on national security, and, unfortunately, with our biased and lying media, the distraction worked. (He could have squelched the Lewinsky thing from the start by saying, “Sure, I did her—now what are you going to do about it?” But he chose not to.)
The US has spent over half a century nurturing and supporting these two Asian democracies. They are economic powerhouses and have the means to be military powerhouses also. Let them step up.
“Time for a workplace accident.”
A Castle Bravo instance might take care of their nuke program all together.
That would be GREAT. 12 MT would shut down kims party forever. Ever hear of the big russky bomb in the 60s? 50 MT. The shockwave was picked up by seismic people as it circled the earth twice and busted windows in Finland. Something 1/4 of that would likely spell the end for NK. And maybe the SK.
Be a real shame if something was to go wrong there
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18— President Clinton approved a plan today to arrange more than $4 billion in energy aid to North Korea during the next decade in return for a commitment from the country’s hard-line Communist leadership to freeze and gradually dismantle its nuclear weapons development program....
The provision also means that it will be years before inspectors can resolve the question of how much weapons-grade plutonium the North has already produced and perhaps converted into a primitive nuclear weapon. Some of Mr. Clinton’s defense and intelligence aides said today that they had hoped North Korea would be forced to surrender its nuclear fuel under a much more rapid timetable.
“This agreement will help achieve a longstanding and vital American objective — an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula,” Mr. Clinton said this afternoon
I’m thinking we could do all the Asia-protecting we need to do from Guam...
China is using them to leverage its influence - they refuse to rein them in and will raise holy hell if we respond to an atrocity by the NORKs....while claiming that they have no power over them but consider an attack on them a act of war against China.
“an explosion up to 14 times more powerful than the lastest one”
Their last test was estimated at 30k tons.
Who believes the NORKS can now make a 400+k ton fusion bomb?
If they CAN, we, the USA, must destroy that capability and the regime.
No matter the cost, inclusive of total war with China.
The Japanese have the technical ability and fissile material to quickly develop nuclear weapons. They are fools if they do not. They are living withing missile range of nuclear armed insane man.
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