wired.com — North Korea?s official mouthpieces are crowing about a successful nuclear weapons test. But how do we know what really happened? By checking the seismic data, scouring the satellite images ? and sending in the ?Constant Phoenix.?
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socialismforusMay 27, 2009
Ridiculous.
Closed AccountMay 27, 2009
I'm not terribly scared of N Korea having nukes... well, ok, I'm more than a little concerned, but what worries me the most is when unstable nations develop small nukes... that could, say, be sold to another nation. or to another "group". all it takes is ONE of these weapons to make its way into any populated city, and it's game over for millions of people.now i have no idea exactly what is meant when they say "small", but the nightmare scenario is something that could be concealed in a small truck. I'm pretty sure this device is much larger, but the idea of the glorious leader having nukes at all is a little troubling.
netantMay 27, 2009
Your talking about a guy who kidnapped a "famous" South Korean actress and her director husband in order to compel them to start a film industry in N Korea. You're talking about a country that randomly kidnapped Japanese in Japan, in order to use them to help train N Korean commandoes to "blend". Plus, I have no idea why pundits ignore the fact that Kim Jong Il was running the NK spy agency, which participated in a bomb attempt upon the S Korean parliament, and successfully blew up an Indian air liner flying to S Korea.
netantMay 27, 2009
They do this because N Korea is starving to death, and the dictator wants to keep his hold on power. His "pattern" has to pose threats to its neighbors in order to "encourage" them to send food (in order to improve N Korea's stability so they don't start a rash invasion). Plus, once N Korea demonstrates having nuke tech, they're going to sell it to any "rogue" nation with the bucks to pay for it. If you still don't understand why N Korea is doing this, then I suggest you stay out of the international punditry arena.
maz2331May 27, 2009
Let's try to avoid that, please. Frying hundreds of thousands or millions of people is not exactly something anyone should want to do.
maz2331May 27, 2009
Innocent civillians in Japan in 1945 - in the midst of the most brutal war the world has ever seen? Against a country where fighting to the last man, woman, or child was official doctrine accepted even by a huge majority of the civillian population?It's not like it was some sort of sneak attack against a country in time of peace. There was an invasion planned with casualty projections in the millions. If anything, the nukes were a more humane way of ending the war.Some enemies just don't know when they are defeated.
sockpuppetsMay 28, 2009
The problem with being an idiot is that you'll never realize you're one.