http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/25/2579959.htm


"North Korea's state media has confirmed the communist state has conducted a nuclear weapons test."

"The US Geological Survey said it detected what it called a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in North Korea."

Time to finish what was left in '53, I think...

What could go wrong ? no, seriously... I don't think china cares.

Son of a bitch!

As with Vietnam the US had no fucking business inventing South Korea ... just to keep the wars rolling.

The cold war was a fucking scam cooked up between a hand full of politicians and business men, some called democratic and some called communist.  Hand in hand they used the intelligence agencies to sell the trumped up threat to the publics. All to first get murder Inc into (legal) business in the first place, financed entirely on the backs of the public,  then keep it in lucrative business so that much more of the same could be exploited.

In fact both world wars were fucking scams.  Sure millions were killed, changes nothing.

   

Been telling you fuckers for years not to trust them but not to worry about them. So I was half right.

PS: Those seismic sensors are not owned or maintained by the USGS.

I'm glad I made it over there before it's all dust! 
Nick, get your wife and get the fuck outta the area!

Unfortunately and in all seriousness both Iran and North Korea are testing Obama with their shenanigans, to see how he'll react. I also just read that Iran has sent 6 war ships out into international waters and fired a test surface to surface missle with a 1,200 mile range. Over the past week Iran has ratcheted up it's fire and brimstone against Israel, going as far as saying they'd wipe Israel out in days.

Luckily, China did actually "condemn" - if you want to call the light language they used - this test.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39868320090525

If either Iran or N. Korea try to fire missiles on Israel, Japan, or the US, or any of our allies, either or both of those countries will from that moment cease to exist because they will be fire-bombed into complete oblivion.  I just don't see how this is a credible threat or how either of them could actually act on their theatrical threats.

Just like 9/11.  They blew up two buildings, we blew up two countries.  We spend more on defense than like the next 15 countries put together.  I don't know why anyone would even try to stir up the hornet's nest.

The credible threat comes from having the tech to manufacture.  You can deliver a nuke by sea. You can sell them. Sure the things are traceable, so you might not have one being detonated: the design to build is the easiest to export.... that's why I would call it a threat.

btw & fyi, I follow the instructions on the cover: Don't panic !

I do agree that the biggest threat from nuclear proliferation isn't that some established nation is going to launch on us or any other country.

The threat is that some country is going to "lose" a warhead.  The US has lost at least one warhead (that I've read about, I'd bet they've lost more).  It's not inconceivable that other countries might lose warheads, whether by accident, theft, or convenient cover-up for an arms sale...and the more volatile countries that have them, the more likely that is to happen.

Tops on my list of concern would be Pakistan followed by North Korea.  Iran doesn't really concern me, but I don't care if Tel Aviv gets nuked by some nut in the worst case.  Really, though, I wouldn't consider Iran all that likely to turn something over to a client organization with both Israel and the US gunning for a war.  I think Israel is also most likely to use nukes in a preemptive strike.

We're slipping back into the fear mongering that some of us older folk grew up with. Duck and cover at the flash, lie in a ditch with your arms over your head and all that shit. The stress of living under the threat of nuclear annihilation caused cancer rates to skyrocket in the early 70s to late 80s. I so do not want to live that way again.

Oh well, back to the salt mines...

If we're going to worry about what's most likely to kill us as an individual, we should be terrified of carcinogens and cars.  Even if we gave every nation-state on the planet a nuke, that wouldn't change.