Reports from South Korea suggest that North Korea has conducted its first Nuclear test.
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Reports from South Korea suggest that North Korea has conducted its first Nuclear test.
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Thank goodness they haven't been able to build an ICBM, and I'm not sure if the USA is ready to fight a war on 3 fronts ?
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ut I would think south korea anf japan are little nervous but with they were probably nervous already.Originally Posted by Launch window
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I have a question regarding this... Does anyone have a good link to an explanation of how an underground test facility works? I've always been curious how you can set off a nuclear chain reaction (in this case apparently somewhere near a city) and contain it underground.
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The world just became a far more dangerous place.
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heres a link from wikipedia about under ground testing, the bomb actually provides all the material for the chain reaction doing underground just contains the reaction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing
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Wonder what are the chances they'll blow themselves up?Oops---CNN live just announced that the USGS did record a 4.2 event!October 9, 2006
...However, the U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected no seismic activity such as might be expected from a nuclear test on the Korean peninsula within the past 48 hours...Analysts say North Korea probably has enough fissile material to make six to eight nuclear bombs but probably does not have the technology to devise one small enough to mount on a missile. Reuters
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We can always hope, well mayby just the leadership of the country I have problem with north koreans in general.
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Have you had contact with them, for they seem pretty much a hermit kingdom?
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USGS just posted a 4.2 magnitude earthquake on the Korean peninsula. From the event log
Note that the depth was 0 km.Magnitude: 4.2 (Light)
Date-Time: Monday, October 9, 2006 at 01:35:27 (UTC)
Location: 41.311°N, 129.114°E
Depth: 0 km (~0 mile) set by location program
Region: NORTH KOREA
Distances: 70 km (45 miles) N of Kimchaek, North Korea
90 km (55 miles) SW of Chongjin, North Korea
180 km (110 miles) S of Yanji, Jilin, China
385 km (240 miles) NE of PYONGYANG, North Korea
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There was also the case of North Korean soldiers flirting with danger in the "no-man's-land" section between North and South Korea - warning shots fired... just what are they up to...?
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no but most countries the regular people are just trying to survive.
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I say, we should nuke Kim Jong-il and his facilities.
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Should we also be responsible for the drifting fallout that is sure to effect neighbouring countries?
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That's a weekly occurrence - though usually it goes without press coverage.
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Is it?
Funny, isn't it, that everyday occurances can seem "suspicious" when viewed in isolation
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The report I read indicated they were fishing, supposedly a twice yearly occurrence. One wonders if this was perhaps related to nuclear fishin'?
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This is actually good news. Better than them having a bomb and not telling anyone about it because they wanted it to be a surprise. (A la Dr Strangelove.)
Now that they have their nuclear deterrent in the open hopefully this will help stabilize the situation. They should feel more secure now and will hopefully put more effort into reforming their economy, which they have been doing at a gradual rate. With luck the people of North Korea will soon see the sort of economic growth they are now seeing in India and which the Chinese have gotten used to.
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Maksutov - pun is your middle name!The report I read indicated they were fishing, supposedly a twice yearly occurrence. One wonders if this was perhaps related to nuclear fishin'?
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Last edited by Launch window; 2006-Oct-09 at 12:21 PM. Reason: comment removed due to geoploitical circumstances
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Well put Ronald.
I will go that one step farther.
North Korea have every right to build and test there own defense system in their own country. Lets be comforted by the thought that just across their northern boarder lies China. You would not want them as a enemy would you.? I do not see this as unsettling the region.
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The White House has already issued a statement.
They are still using the more diplomatic future tense even though the statement came after the report of the test - though before the USGS data was released."A North Korean nuclear test would constitute a provocative act in defiance of the will of the international community and of our call to refrain from actions that would aggravate tensions in Northeast Asia,"
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Reports from South Korea suggest that North Korea has conducted its first Nuclear test
A minor 3.5 earthquake was registered in the area on Monday morning. A seismic wave had been detected at 10:36 a.m. in Hwaderi province near Kilju city on the northeast coast of the PRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea
http://www.bautforum.com/attachment....3&d=1160328592
P'unggye-yok test site
Longitude: 41.280302° Latitude: 129.085333°
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he should be pun ishedMaksutov - pun is your middle name!
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Please be careful. While the whole thread is about something with geoploitical implications, this statement clearly violates our no politics rule. There is no warning this time, except to broadly point out that we need to avoid this kind of thing.
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Sorry, about that. I'll remove that remark
Russia condemns '5-15 kiloton' North Korean nuclear test
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/061009112917.irth4ev2.html
China said on Monday it firmly opposed North Korea's nuclear test, denouncing it as "brazen" in unusually strong language, and demanded Pyongyang stop any action that could worsen the situation."The DPRK has ignored the widespread opposition of the international community and conducted a nuclear test brazenly on October 9," China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its Web site (www.fmprc.gov.cn).
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...C3-worldNews-2
The yen fell to an eight-month low against the dollar after the North Korean government said it conducted its first nuclear weapons test.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...S4&refer=japan
Prime Minister John Howard has strongly condemned North Korea's actions in carrying out a nuclear test.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...0/s1758963.htm
North Korea's Statement in Full
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6032597.stm
U.S. Geological Survey records 4.2 magnitude seismic event in North Korea
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/...lear_Quake.php
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The nuclear test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. (01:36 GMT) in Hwaderi near Kilju city.
Read moreThe Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has 337 monitoring facilities around the globe.
As well as seismograph and infrasound networks, they have what are called radionuclide stations which would be able to detect any nuclear particles in the atmosphere.
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Yonhap reports there is a possiblity they're going to blow off another Nuke
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/200...9212019E6.html
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