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This is only a test.

Reports from all over indicate that North Korea tested a nuclear device tonight.

Shit.
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[identity profile] cybogoblin.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
A South Korean monitering station said the blast registered at about 5.4 oh the Richter scale.

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
USGS says 4.2, and the Russian defense ministry estimates the blast at 5-15 kilotons.

This was the big topic on Coast to Coast AM last night; given the difficulties that NK has had with its ballistic missile program lately, one of the panel suggested that a suicide mission aboard a mini submarine might be the delivery method, should NK want to use one.
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[personal profile] tegyrius 2006-10-09 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Guess we're gonna be testing some of ours soon.

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
With the current regime in Washington, I wouldn't be surprised.

Damn them all.

[identity profile] cybogoblin.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't the whole point of having nukes that you can never actually use them? They're the great deterrant, or something like that. Then again, I wouldn't put it past Kim Jong "Mr Ronrey" Il to try something monumentally stupid like actually firing one.

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2006-10-09 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much. During the Cold War, nukes were diplomatic weapons more than military ones. Mutually Assured Destruction kept everybody in line.

North Korea's rulership is sufficiently bugnuts to use one of the things, I believe. The nation honestly has nothing to lose.
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