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NORTH KOREA CONDUCTS NUCLEAR TEST

 
 
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 11:12 am
Ticomaya wrote:
Steve 41oo wrote:
Like I said another American screw up. Decades of threats diplomacy sticks carrots sanctions blockades talks and no talks resulting in precisely the opposite of what everyone wanted.


Not the opposite of what North Korea wanted, Steve. They got exactly what they wanted.

We should have bombed them ... I'm glad you agree with me.
Why did dprk want the bomb anyway? Perhaps they saw it as cast iron protection from American bullying and threats of regime change? I dont think bombing is the solution then or now. But now they have the bomb the options are closed down further. Just out of interest, in what way did dprk pose a threat to the USA before they developed nuclear weapons?
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:02 pm
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This the first official US confirmation that a nuclear detonation took place.
and why are the Americans so slow on the uptake? The Russians said within hours if not minutes that this was a bone fide nuclear explosion. Are American nuclear experts just a bit dim or something?
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:27 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
Ticomaya wrote:
Steve 41oo wrote:
Like I said another American screw up. Decades of threats diplomacy sticks carrots sanctions blockades talks and no talks resulting in precisely the opposite of what everyone wanted.


Not the opposite of what North Korea wanted, Steve. They got exactly what they wanted.

We should have bombed them ... I'm glad you agree with me.
Why did dprk want the bomb anyway? Perhaps they saw it as cast iron protection from American bullying and threats of regime change? I dont think bombing is the solution then or now. But now they have the bomb the options are closed down further. Just out of interest, in what way did dprk pose a threat to the USA before they developed nuclear weapons?

Before they developed nuclear weapons, they posed little threat to the US, other than their antagonism for South Korea, a US ally. Now they pose a large threat. Irresponsible, unstable dictators, whose actions aren't much mediated by scruples, in possession of a (possibly) growing supply of nuclear weapons pose a serious threat to everyone.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:29 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
Like I said another American screw up. Decades of threats diplomacy sticks carrots sanctions blockades talks and no talks resulting in precisely the opposite of what everyone wanted.

We didn't cause them to obtain nuclear weapons, we simply failed to stop them. At least we recognized the danger and made an effort.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:41 pm
Brandon9000 wrote:
Steve 41oo wrote:
Like I said another American screw up. Decades of threats diplomacy sticks carrots sanctions blockades talks and no talks resulting in precisely the opposite of what everyone wanted.

We didn't cause them to obtain nuclear weapons, we simply failed to stop them. ..
Indeed you did Brandon. Like you failed to capture Osama bin Laden. Like you failed to build a new democratic peaceful Iraq. Ditto Afghanistan. Too much failure Brandon. I'm all for hitching my carriage to a winner. But I'm sick of being tied to a loser.
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:54 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
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This the first official US confirmation that a nuclear detonation took place.
and why are the Americans so slow on the uptake? The Russians said within hours if not minutes that this was a bone fide nuclear explosion. Are American nuclear experts just a bit dim or something?


Because it takes days to officially confirm the facts. Anyone can spout off and claim it was a nuclear explosion, but "confirmation" is what took time. And I pointed out to you already (which you may have missed) the Russian scientist who said it took days and he was not 100% certain:

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Nuclear bombs make big waves, with clear signatures that make them fairly easy to detect, analyze and confirm that they were caused by splitting atoms. But smaller blasts -- as North Korea's appears to have been -- are trickier to break down, scientists told the Associated Press.

"It takes days, dozens of lab hours, to evaluate results. Now we can have only a rough estimate," said Russian nuclear physicist Vladimir Orlov of the Moscow-based Center for Policy Studies in Russia, a nonproliferation think tank


LINK
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:54 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Steve 41oo wrote:
Like I said another American screw up. Decades of threats diplomacy sticks carrots sanctions blockades talks and no talks resulting in precisely the opposite of what everyone wanted.

We didn't cause them to obtain nuclear weapons, we simply failed to stop them. ..
Indeed you did Brandon. Like you failed to capture Osama bin Laden. Like you failed to build a new democratic peaceful Iraq. Ditto Afghanistan. Too much failure Brandon. I'm all for hitching my carriage to a winner. But I'm sick of being tied to a loser.


Could you point out a "winner" you would prefer to be hitched to?
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 16 Oct, 2006 01:59 pm
Ticomaya wrote:

Could you point out a "winner" you would prefer to be hitched to?
thats a good question Tico, and I will answer it

...after a tv programme right now about the suez invasion 1956

(preliminary answer...The America I thought I knew)
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kuvasz
 
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Reply Wed 18 Oct, 2006 07:22 am
well, cold logic nor facts rarely mean much to a conservative, and Timbuktu you are fast approaching masseggetto- proportions in spamming, but at least you like dogs. and that is too dear to my heart to offend you further I went through this stuff ad nasuem with occom bill 19 months ago and still the A2K Right wing air bags bray like blood hounds as they ever do when they sniff Clinton's cock.

btw ashman, I am not one more liberal democrat who wants Chinese partcipation in NK armament talks because I don't trust the Chinese and it hands one more chit to them to use for trade talks, yuan devaluation talks Tawinese reunification talks, or central Asian oil talks. but thanks to Bush that's right now where it puts them. The NKs want the US to negitioate a treaty not to make their rumble bounce and or remove their power elite. Its purely a defensive action taken by paranoid monsters. They don't fear that from China, the Japanese, SKs, or Russians and they built that nuke to test to get the US to the negotiation table.

but lost in the fog of ideological finger pointing that makes "Who lost China" a parlor game is what that bomb was made of and who attempted to prevent the production of the stuff that makes it go "BOOM." Naturally the knee jerks, as usual from the Right don't even know their facts. So let us begin:

With a source of record and work back logically to who did what to let the NKs manufacture its weapons grade.....frigging PLUTONIUM.

North Korean Fuel Identified as Plutonium

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/world/asia/17diplo.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1161057600&en=50f818a4c23ca12c&ei=5059&partner=AOL&oref=login

And work back logically to who did what to let the NKs let manufacture its bomb.

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American intelligence agencies have concluded that North Korea's test explosion last week was powered by plutonium that North Korea harvested from its small nuclear reactor, according to officials who have reviewed the results of atmospheric sampling since the blast.


Guess who turned his back on the monitoring program that froze Pyongyang's plutonium production for almost a decade?

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least we forget the CIA testified in front of Congress in 1994 that the NKs had produced enough plutonium to make several bombs DURING George Bush (the Greater's presidency), before Bill Clinton took office in 1993.

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Nuclear experts said that the use of plutonium to make the bomb was important because it suggested that North Korea probably had only one nuclear program mature enough to produce weapons.

"This is good news because we have a reasonably good idea of how much plutonium they have made," said Siegfried S. Hecker, the former chief of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and now a visiting professor at Stanford University. Mr. Hecker, who has visited North Korea and is one of the few foreigners to have seen parts of its nuclear infrastructure, said that it was his guess that "they tried to test a reasonably sophisticated device, and they had trouble imploding it properly."

The supply of plutonium materials is known from the days when international inspectors kept tabs on the fuel rods in the North's reactor, and intelligence analysts estimate that North Korea has enough material to make 6 to 10 plutonium bombs.

Politically, the results of the test may revive last week's finger-pointing about who is more responsible for the Korean test: Bill Clinton or President Bush


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As president, Mr. Clinton negotiated a deal that froze the production and weaponization of North Korea's plutonium, but intelligence agencies later determined that North Korea began its secret uranium program under his watch. The plutonium that North Korea exploded was produced, according to intelligence estimates, either during the administration of the first President Bush or after 2003, when the North Koreans threw out international inspectors and began reprocessing spent nuclear fuel the inspectors had kept under seal.

Unlike the Clinton administration in 1994, the current Bush administration chose not to threaten to destroy North Korea's fuel and nuclear reprocessing facilities if they tried to make weapons.


So Clinton stopped the uranium production by negotiation alongside Jimmy Carter, threatened to bomb the plutonium production. Now what was left from Bush's dad's 1989-1993 term was made into bombs along any plutonium produced by Bush from 2003 and the NKS can't even make a uranium bomb now. Because Clinton stopped it, but Bush would not even threaten to do what Clinton dared; to bomb the plutonium production. So much for "Clinton and Carter be weak," Bush be strong" you incessant Right Wing Bozos puke out.

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"There was a brief window to catch this plutonium before it was made into bomb fuel. It's gone. It's out of the barn now."


That's right you Kiddie Korps of the American Bund, opps, Bush fucked it up.

And the real reason he did it was regardless of whatever Clinton did, Bush for ideological reasons, would do the reverse.

and like blind lemming you support this pimple of a man, Bush.

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After a week of some lingering doubt about whether the test had indeed been a nuclear detonation, the office of John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, confirmed that much in a statement issued Monday.


and the best part is that creepoid who is a darling to the Right Wing mouth breathers shoved his whole God damn leg into his mouth up to his hip socket with this ditty....

" I would remind Senator Clinton and other Democrats critical of Bush administration policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure."
--John McCain, October 10th

Opps. Sorry Johnny boy that would be George Bush's failure. You twit.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:25 am
Asherman wrote:
There are a number of response open, but I doubt any will be effective in greatly reducing the threats posed by the DPRK. There would be serious repercussions if we forced nuclear weapons into ROK, or Japan. It isn't necessary, so why further rock the boat?


Three reasons:

One, it would give North Korea something to think about when they contemplate attacking those countries.

Two, if we base our nukes on their soil, Japan and South Korea might not feel compelled to develop nuclear weapons of their own.

Three, if it turns out that North Korea doesn't like our doing this, we can offer to negotiate a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:27 am
Advocate wrote:
The USA is asking the UN to impose very harsh sanctions on N. Korea. You mean that its public is not downtrodden enough, and that we have to ensure they all starve to death.


If they'd rather have nukes than food, let them eat plutonium.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:29 am
kiwimac wrote:
China reported it was a Neutron style device which would mean a relatively small explosion but 'dirty' which could be disastrous for the Korean Aquifers and river systems.


There is no way North Korea has the capability to build a neutron bomb.

I wouldn't call a neutron bomb clean, but it isn't noticeably dirtier than other designs.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:37 am
dadpad wrote:
I am not really surprised at the world reaction to North Korean nuclear tests. However I do think the reaction is a little two faced.
Kind of like.... we're allowed to have nukes but your not


Such is the NPT.



dadpad wrote:
France ignored Pacific protests and conducted illegal activities such as sinking the Rainbow Warrior to achieve their goals.


Hardly illegal. Had it been my call, the ship would have been taken out with an anti-ship missile, with the loss of all hands.



dadpad wrote:
The US centic media would have us believe that Kim il sung and his son Kim jong il are maniacle dictatorish despots whereas my own sources paint a completely different picture.


Your sources are wrong.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:38 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
Ticomaya wrote:
-from the article tico posted. I dont know why the Americans are so keen to cast doubt on the test. Nuclear explosions have a particular characteristic signature. Its identifiable from the seismic trace. The Russians said they were 100% sure it was a bonefide nuclear explosion....and they know a thing or two about underground tests. I think saying it went wrong or wasnt very big - not an impressive result etc is just saving American embarrassment that DPRK should have tested a device at all.


Why would we be embarrassed over their crimes?

We say it was not an impressive result because it was either faked or was a dud (most likely a dud).

Every country that debuted their nuclear status before this did not screw up by setting off a dud.

North Korea may be criminal troublemakers, but their incompetence in weapons design is worth poking fun at.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:39 am
Advocate wrote:
Had Clinton attacked, all of our troops in S. Korea would have been killed


Not likely.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:41 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
Ticomaya wrote:

But the course that was taken, and the course you seem happily content with, was to try diplomacy, and take DPRK at it's word that it would not pursue its nuclear program. The result of that course is that North Korea has nukes.
much to American embarrassment as I was saying before.


Why would North Korean crimes be embarrassing for us?
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:42 am
Advocate wrote:
Bush insists on six-party negotiations that clearly are not in the cards. I don't see what is so wrong with bilateral talks.


It would just give North Korea an opportunity to double cross us.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:45 am
parados wrote:
Was our goal for NK to test a nuke? That is the result of Bush's 6 years.


No, that is the result of North Korea's criminal ambition.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:46 am
parados wrote:
Clinton had 2 party talks. North Korea stopped producing plutonium and shut down the reactor.

Bush demanded 6 party talks. North Korea restarted the reactor and produced enough plutonium for perhaps another 6 nukes. North Korea then tested a nuclear device.


I don't know what planet you live on Finn. But the results are pretty clear for both approaches. Clinton's approach may have had some problems in that North Korea probably attempted to build centrifuges for uranium enrichment. We don't know if they even came close. We are only told they were trying.

If CLinton's approach was a failure we can only describe Bush's as a complete disaster.


Both approaches were a failure. If we want to end their criminal nuclear ambition, then we have to go to war against them.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 03:48 am
Advocate wrote:
Clinton gave NK a couple of nondangerous light-water reactors that were paid for by Japan and SK.


Nondangerous?????




Advocate wrote:
NK's facilities were padlocked and cameras were installed to ensure compliance. NK gave up rods.


They continued their illegal enrichment program.
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