[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6134712,00.html[/url] :shock:

now what??

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nothing else, if they ever shot off one at us we would shoot it down

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550 ton TNT equivalent and a 4.6 on the scale of Richter tremor... Let them blow up their nukes on their own turf and in the other case I hope they won't mind being turned into a glass crater.

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The question is what will their immediate neighbors do?

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nothing the UN doesnt work.

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i have an idea ...

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you could go the bitch route, which will probably be taken, and scold scold while not acting. or someone could grow a pair, and send a B-2 lancer out of nagasaki air force base, and laod it up with a few daisy cutters, and drop them on the nuke facility. what are they gonna do?

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I understand your sentiment but I seriously hope we don't do that. It costs 1Billion/day doing what we are doing in Iraq. We can't afford that. Committing to something else will only hasten the financial ruin of the US. Brankruptcy awaits.

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no invasion, just blow up the building and walk away.

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Sean ... Daisy Cutters do not do much. they just make a huge boom! they are in the dumb bomb cat. They were used in Nam to clear foilage for LZ's.

Besides the bang effect ... really worthless. Good scare tactic.

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[quote=thesightless;386820]no invasion, just blow up the building and walk away.[/quote]

hey what happended to the yanks??:shock:

do you think panella will take over?

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beginning of the end for NK

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^^^ yup, they publicly humiliated big brother China and the fact that the next un secretary general is going to be a south korean isn't going to do much good either.

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here we go....next thing you know we will be in WWIII as they try to again claim South Korea, then Japan....

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I don't think it was a nuke...just a bunch of TNT and publicity. We have the technology to sniff out the radiation in real time upon detonation.

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[quote=supaz;387096]I don't think it was a nuke...just a bunch of TNT and publicity. We have the technology to sniff out the radiation in real time upon detonation.[/quote]A bunch? 550 tons is a bunch to you? Btw, when the explosion is fully contained, underground nuclear testing emits a negligible amount of fallout.

Nuclear testing site in Nevada:

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Yes, those craters are what you think they are...

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you can't have "slaughter" without "laughter", so:

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more "laugter":

[B]U.S. Aid Helps N. Korea Build Nukes, Congress Told[/B] By Lawrence Morahan CNS Staff Writer 17 April, 2000

([B]CNSNews.com[/B]) - North Korea's nuclear production capacity will increase from a dozen nuclear bombs a year to 65 a year by 2010, thanks in large part to American taxpayer money, two renowned U.S. nuclear scientists told congressional leaders last week.

North Korea observers have long suspected the communist dictatorship is using Western humanitarian aid to starving North Koreans to feed Kim Jong Il's million-man army.

But an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, William R. Graham and Victor Gilinsky told members of the House Policy Committee.

North Korea's missile proliferation has accelerated dramatically since the Clinton-Gore administration began giving aid to the regime in 1994.

"There were no known No-dong missile sales abroad until after the United States signed the so-called Agreed Framework with North Korea," House Speaker Dennis Hastert's North Korea advisory group reported.

But since U.S. aid began, the communist state has sold crucial technology to Iran for the Shahab missile that now threatens U.S. forces and their allies in the Middle East, and for a Pakistani missile in 1998 that disrupted the fragile stability of South Asia.

In 1994 the Clinton administration signed an agreement with North Korea that was designed to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons development program. North Korea sought light water reactors to provide for their energy needs and the U.S. agreed to provide them in exchange for North Korea giving up its nuclear program.

Western aid also earned donor countries the right to inspect the North Korean nuclear facilities.

Full story: [URL]http://www.cnsnews.com/Pentagon/Archive/1998-2000/DEF20000417a.html[/URL]

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^Yup. Hilarious.