North Korea Nuke Test.... the good news

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 6:23am

One Ohio Class Ballistic Missle Submarine could vaporize all of North Korea... and then do it again nine more times.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 10:23am

because nuclear war is always good news.

Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:10am

And the bad news is......??

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:10am

And, aside from a twinge of pesky guilt from wiping out millions of people, I'm sure there would be no negative repercussions following such a move.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:39pm

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html

like there's any good news.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:40pm

Ouch

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 1:16pm

based on the seismic data generated (4.2 on the richter scale), the yield for the weapon nk allegedly tested would be in the 1-5 kiloton range. the weapon dropped on hiroshima, by contrast was 15kt. south korean geologists put the yield at 550 tons and the russians put it at 5-15kt. this puts it in the range of a what's referred to as a tactical nuclear weapon. the kind that could be made small enough to fit into a duffelbag and deliver a 1kt yield like the ones the us and the sovs developed.
little bombs

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 1:20pm

My point was Kim Jong-il has one or two little ones... we can still out-gun the hell out of him.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 1:23pm

his weapons would not be used directly against the united states mainland unless he subbed them out to a third party and allowed them to detonate and denied complicity. their use would be specifically to carve out a path through the dmz or more probably to take out sk's leadership.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 3:33pm

i was waiting for someone on the left to say it, so thanks kevin.
was it a fake?

[kasim]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 4:24pm

their are some that say it was a neutron bomb rather than a normal atomic bomb

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 4:40pm

who's saying that?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 6:36pm

I remember Kim in Team America

Wonder where he got the Nuke know it all to get this far ?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 6:41pm

probably stole it from the Chinese who stole it from us.


Or the Russians just gave it to him.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 6:41pm

Wrong answer but good try

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:48pm

One Ohio Class Ballistic Missle Submarine could vaporize all of North Korea... and then do it again nine more times.


Gee.....let me guess, your a republican, right?

and at what cost? Seoul? Tokyo? Or does that not matter to you as they are not American cities? How bout Seattle or San Fran? Would that make it ok?

I am sick to death of people who advocate using Nukes.......

Updated On: 10/9/06 at 07:48 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:53pm

Where the f*ck was Bush while NK was whomping up some nukes?

Oh right--in Iraq, protecting oilfields.

Heckuva job, Bushy.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:54pm

oh no Pal, now they're blaming Clinton for it all....such morons

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:27pm

it might be that this little exercise was not so much aimed at us as it was at the un security council who was getting ready to send their nomination of ban-ki moon (former south korean foreign minister) as the new secretary general of the un to the general assembly.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:35pm

San Fransisco would kinda piss me off as I like the town (they gotta do something about the pan-handlers though)

Seattle: I don't know maybe a samll nuke would improve the weather there... just kidding.

While you're at it Joey, what did Bubba do about NK, Iran, and Iraq? Oh that's right he was getting a hummer.

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:36pm

better than killing thousands of innocents.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:42pm

Some old coot named Henry Lamb is already beating the drum:

Another option: bomb the hell out of Pyongyang, with special attention to every building Kim is known to frequent and every known missile base in the country.

Of course, this would unleash seismic ripples around the world. Iran would almost certainly crank up its military and enter the fray in Iraq – unless Tehran were known to be on the target list. Russia and China – and France, of course – would scream bloody murder. And the George Soros-funded anti-war groups in the U.S. would go ballistic.

The aftermath would be ugly, no doubt. It will be no more attractive a year from now or five years from now – it will be even worse. But if it does not occur before these "evil" nations get fully operational, the explosions will be in the United States, and the screams will come from Americans.
diplomacy in action

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:44pm

"While you're at it Joey, what did Bubba do about NK, Iran, and Iraq? Oh that's right he was getting a hummer."

Clearly, you've never given a straight man a hummer, newbie. They last 6 minutes, tops, because they're so not used to getting them.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:45pm

Here's what "Bubba" did--he gave North Korea $95 million to perfect its nuclear capabilities.

Oh wait--that wasn't Bubba--that was DUBYA!

==

BBC News

Wednesday, 3 April, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK

US grants N Korea nuclear funds

The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".

Deal under threat

North Korea has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the agreement in recent weeks.

It has been angered by President Bush's accusation that Pyongyang was part of an "axis of evil" producing weapons of mass destruction.

This annoyance was compounded by Washington's decision to withhold this year's certification that North Korea is keeping its side of the Agreed Framework.

It has systematically refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its nuclear facility at the Yongbyon research base north of the capital.

Delayed

Pyongyang has justified its refusals by pointing out that the reactors are way behind schedule.

They were originally expected to have been completed next year, but now construction is not expected to even begin until August.

Another issue is the different interpretations of the inspections' timing.

According to the Framework, North Korea should be fully compliant with IAEA safeguards when "a significant proportion" of the project is completed.

The builders say that will be around May 2005, and given the inspections will take at least three years, this means that North Korea should start admitting inspectors now.

But Pyongyang believes that they should only allow the inspections to start, rather than finish, by that date.

The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof.

"These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Updated On: 10/10/06 at 12:45 PM

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/10/06 at 12:47pm

Namo! How ya been?