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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/nkorea.blast/index.html

Seems pretty hush hush around the world. Had to search for this in CNN and BBC. Now that the US knows Korea has nukes, what is the next step ? Hope for the best ?

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Originally posted by pcaspian
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/nkorea.blast/index.html

Seems pretty hush hush around the world. Had to search for this in CNN and BBC. Now that the US knows Korea has nukes, what is the next step ? Hope for the best ?

You're jumping the gun a bit, aren't you? The link you provided says the US does NOT believe that N. Korea has tested any nukes! So maybe the next and first step is finding out what's going on BEFORE we decide what "has" to been done since they have nukes (which they probably don't).

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Originally posted by no1marauder
You're jumping the gun a bit, aren't you? The link you provided says the US does NOT believe that N. Korea has tested any nukes! So maybe the next and first step is finding out what's going on BEFORE we decide what "has" to been done since they have nukes (which they probably don't).
Well you know when they say they don't know they know. They just don't want the Koreans to know we know. YOU KNOW? If that don't confuse you nothing will.😉🙄

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Originally posted by slimjim
Well you know when they say they don't know they know. They just don't want the Koreans to know we know. YOU KNOW? If that don't confuse you nothing will.😉🙄
HMMM, so you're saying that the US government is pretending that we don't know what we do know so that the North Koreans won't know that we do know what we're saying that we don't know? Ahh, it all makes sense to me now, who's says the guviment is a bunch of idiots!!🙄🙄

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I bounce back and forth between Fox and CNN. Fox said that air sample tests would have been taken to confirm that it is not nuclear.

I was in Utah earlier this summer, and I saw a classic mushroom cloud to the north, up somewhere near the Wyoming border it appeared. Must have been a huge forest fire.

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Originally posted by Paul Dirac
I bounce back and forth between Fox and CNN. Fox said that air sample tests would have been taken to confirm that it is not nuclear.

I was in Utah earlier this summer, and I saw a classic mushroom cloud to the north, up somewhere near the Wyoming border it appeared. Must have been a huge forest fire.
We hope.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
We hope.
Blame Canada.

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Originally posted by Paul Dirac
I bounce back and forth between Fox and CNN. Fox said that air sample tests would have been taken to confirm that it is not nuclear.

I was in Utah earlier this summer, and I saw a classic mushroom cloud to the north, up somewhere near ...[text shortened]... the Wyoming border it appeared. Must have been a huge forest fire.
Nothing to worry about.
Just a couple of ranchers taking care of a grizzly bear problem.
Those smaller thermonuclear devices are just about right for that.

They also help keep the state's population down below half a million!! 😉

regards, Marc (in Wyoming)

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Blame Canada.
Dadblastit Canucks...they're nuking Yellowstone to exterminate our bison. Now we're gonna have the Sierra Club all over our government's butt.

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Originally posted by pcaspian
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/nkorea.blast/index.html

Seems pretty hush hush around the world. Had to search for this in CNN and BBC. Now that the US knows Korea has nukes, what is the next step ? Hope for the best ?

according to margaret thacher, while asked where she'd be in the case of a neculear war, the purpose of neuclear weapons is to stop war.

how stupid of me not to relise! 😲

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Originally posted by pcaspian
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/nkorea.blast/index.html

Seems pretty hush hush around the world. Had to search for this in CNN and BBC. Now that the US knows Korea has nukes, what is the next step ? Hope for the best ?

So what if they have them?
I'm no more concerned about this than I am
about the US having them. (building them, probably selling them, aso)
It's just another country trying to dominate others by force or the threat of force. Nothing new.. Just plain terrorism. (Define the word and see)

Terrorism. The tool of the strong. Forcing a behavior on people
by demonstrating the dreadful consequences of disobediance.
Note however that history never labels successful terror as terror at
all. Only the feeble attempts at using violence by the opposition are
called terrorism.

This to is nothing to get upset about really. Just the way of the world.
It would of course be great if we could change this, and the first step has to be:
Leave the other people alone.

If you want to help.
Send food. (For free)
Send medications. (For free)
Help build infrastructure. (For free)

Feel good about yourself, sure. But don't make demands
on the one you are trying to help. That's just another form of violence.
Blackmail.

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Originally posted by genius
according to margaret thacher, while asked where she'd be in the case of a neculear war, the purpose of neuclear weapons is to stop war.

how stupid of me not to relise! 😲
like all leaders they would be safe not like us we would be lucky if where the wind blows story . as for do they know that we know that they know that we know that they know that we know that they know is just a guess

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Don't worry. It wasn't a nuclear test. They were just blowing up a mountain!

Move along...nothin' to see here....

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Originally posted by no1marauder
You're jumping the gun a bit, aren't you? The link you provided says the US does NOT believe that N. Korea has tested any nukes! So maybe the next and first step is finding out what's going on BEFORE we decide what "has" to been done since they have nukes (which they probably don't).

N. Korea wants to send a message to other nations. "We have a nuclear weapons". I see no way the USA would NOT know if it was a nuke of a forest fire. That is a bunch of crud. A nuclear cloud would appear in a matter of seconds, a forest fire would take a substantial amount of time.

Either way, in the game of politics, we really can't expect to hear an honest answer from the US government can we ?




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Originally posted by genius
according to margaret thacher, while asked where she'd be in the case of a neculear war, the purpose of neuclear weapons is to stop war.

how stupid of me not to relise! 😲
Apparently, when the British Government was drawing up plans for nuclear war, one of the scenarios they considered was 'area denial' by the Yanks after a conventional Soviet invasion of Europe. 😲

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