This is only a test.

[tracker7]

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

Shit.

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[tracker7.livejournal.com]

With the current regime in Washington, I wouldn't be surprised.

Damn them all.

[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

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.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

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.