Constant updates at Someone tell Bush to push the red button! Update: Not looking good:
In Seoul a foreign ministry spokesman said South Korea’s intelligence agency has detected a 3.58-magnitude seismic tremor, following North Korea’s announcement of a nuclear test.
Update:
Fox again– the U.S. geological survey reports that there is some seismic activity coming in now, but no location or magnitude. A team of geologists will have a statement in half an hour.
Not a lot of information on this yet…will keep you informed and updated as this develops. Here is the report across the line.
A South Korean government official said there is information that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test Monday morning, Yonhap news agency said.
Bosun tells us why we should worry:
Along with DPRK, Pakistan and Iran have jointly worked with DPRK on similar missile projects. The Iranian Shahab-5/Shahab 6 is similar in technology and in design to the Taep’o-dong 2. There is much more that meets the eye on this problem. (Source: Missile Threat.Com) 30 Years of miscalculations For the past 30 years, as the international community idly sat wringing its hand, DPRK pursued the development of their ever expanding ballistic missile program (and apparently their not so covert) nuclear weapons program. Mismanagement and miscalculation has occurred on every American Presidents’ watch for probably the past 30 years. DPRK has devoted itself to developing weapons and delivery systems under the noses of the world community. Now DPRK is going to test their nuclear weapon? What next? Are they going to collude with their “partners” to hold the free world hostage?
North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
Allah Pundit is on it too. MKH as well. Rightwinged as well. Bryan Preston’s thoughts…read the whole thing.
Diplomacy isn’t going to stop North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. That’s the bottom line. North Korea sees nukes as its last best hope of survival, while the rest of the world (minus China and possibly Russia) see North Korean nukes as an intolerable threat. I don’t see a peaceful end to this. Either China deals with Kim, or we do. And it doesn’t look like we will.
If this report turns out to be true we can count on North Korea to use it as leverage. They will now scream it from the mountain tops that they are a nuclear power! What will we do about it? Probably nothing of any significance but a lot more cheap talk…..especially if we let the loony left take control of the House and Senate. Texas Rainmaker wants everyone to remember why we are in this situation to begin with. The photo above helps to do that. The Democratic Underground react predictably. South Korean market dives.
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North Korea conducts successful nuke test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.
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Trackback by Morning Coffee — 10/8/2006 @ 10:53 pm
I wonder how hard it would be for a country to load up a mine shaft with 20 kilotons of TNT, hook up timed detonators, and tell the world it’s a nuke. North Korea doesn’t need a nuke, they just need the world to think they have and would use one.
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Standard. Expect nothin to happen. Seriously. A few condemnations from all of the usual suspects. Sanctions? Seriously. North Korea’s GDP might be enough to purchase a Starbucks iced latte. Nothing will happen except North Korea will continue to hold the world hostage, asking for the basic necessities its worker’s paradise can produce for itself.
I am fairly confident that we’ll know shortly whether or not it was an actual nuclear test. Once all of the date is in we’ll be able to determine if it was a “20 kilotons of TNT” thang. I doubt it, because if it came out that North Korea was bluffing, then they would lose alot of face. I would be this is the real deal.
Comment by Duncan Avatar — 10/9/2006 @ 8:30 am
Should have been written “asking for the basic necessities its worker’s paradise CAN’T produce”..
Comment by Duncan Avatar — 10/9/2006 @ 8:31 am
Since the occupation of Iraq, I\’ve been inferring that the largest threat to Western society is not a bunch of ill-equiped, half-assed, Isalmic sand monkeys, but the threat of nuclear prolification. If said half-assed, Islamic sand monkeys DO become equiped, and with tools of the nuclear kind, then the world is yet to swallow a very large portion of the analagous Shiite sandwich.
It would be extreme hubris on my behalf to jump up and down, inferring pelvic gestures, stating: “told ya\’ so you conseravive bastards!” But that would be statement against all those who favoured the Iraq conflict as a global defence initiative. “I no longer laugh, but sigh (or is that cry?).” It seems there are indeed WMD\’s, and DPRK are starting off THIS party with one big Cold War bang. Budda bing, budda bang, budda boom!
So now we have the fifth state in defiance of the non-proliferation treaty. Great. And of that nuclear club, Korea wants to handle the catering. Mexican. How about downtown Washington? Slagged into hot taco-sauce? No?
I\’m no Right Wing Chickenhawk, but I believe it would be not only futile to impose further sanctioning, but downright ridiculous. And we cannot except another country joining the nuclear club. The issue becomes akin to cellular division. One nuclear-nation becomes two; two become four; four become eight; eight become sixteen, etc… We have forty nations in the nuclear arms race now. Forty. Comprehend that?
If this is an unacceptable notion, the only alternative is to persuade DPRK through direct airstrike. DPRK\’s missile sites should be surgically cut; devastated by Tomahawk missile barrage.
Or do accept DPRK, and the other unstable elements of the world, grabbing us by the balls, and squeezing with their nuclear grip? I say it\’s time to put pyongyang in the microwave, and set the timer to: Nukeit.
(Well Tomahawk-it anyway. Just doesn\’t have the same ring, y\’know?)
-Goshdarnit
Comment by Duke Nukem — 10/10/2006 @ 8:02 pm
Since the occupation of Iraq, I\’ve been inferring that the largest threat to Western society is not a bunch of ill-equiped, half-assed, Isalmic sand monkeys, but the threat of nuclear prolification. If said half-assed, Islamic sand monkeys DO become equiped, and with tools of the nuclear kind, then the world is yet to swallow a very large portion of the analagous Shiite sandwich.
It would be extreme hubris on my behalf to jump up and down, inferring pelvic gestures, stating: “told ya\’ so you conseravive bastards!” But that would be statement against all those who favoured the Iraq conflict as a global defence initiative. “I no longer laugh, but sigh (or is that cry?).” It seems there are indeed WMD\’s, and DPRK are starting off THIS party with one big Cold War bang. Budda bing, budda bang, budda boom!
So now we have the fifth state in defiance of the non-proliferation treaty. Great. And of that nuclear club, Korea wants to handle the catering. Mexican. How about downtown Washington? Slagged into hot taco-sauce? No?
I\’m no Right Wing Chickenhawk, but I believe it would be not only futile to impose further sanctioning, but downright ridiculous. And we cannot except another country joining the nuclear club. The issue becomes akin to cellular division. One nuclear-nation becomes two; two become four; four become eight; eight become sixteen, etc… We have forty nations in the nuclear arms race now. Forty. Comprehend that?
If this is an unacceptable notion, the only alternative is to persuade DPRK through direct airstrike. DPRK\’s missile sites should be surgically cut; devastated by Tomahawk missile barrage.
Or do accept DPRK, and the other unstable elements of the world, grabbing us by the balls, and squeezing with their nuclear grip? I say it\’s time to put pyongyang in the microwave, and set the timer to: Nukeit.
(Well Tomahawk-it anyway. Just doesn\’t have the same ring, y\’know?)
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Comment by Hail to the King — 10/11/2006 @ 1:22 am