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N. Korea nuclear test condemned

BURT HERMAN

Associated Press
POSTED AT 10:06 AM EDT ON 09/10/06

SEOUL — North Korea faced a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation Monday after it announced that it had set off a small atomic weapon underground, a test that thrust the secretive state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations.

The United States, Japan, China and Britain led a chorus of criticism and urged action by the United Nations Security Council in response to the reported test, which fell one day after the anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's accession to power nine years ago.

The Security Council had warned North Korea just two days earlier not to go through with any test, and the Pyongyang government's defiance was likely to lead to calls for stronger sanctions against the impoverished and already isolated country.

The Security Council planned to discuss the crisis Monday, and the United States and Japan are likely to press for a resolution imposing additional sanctions on Pyongyang.

Televisions broadcast news about North Korea's nuclear test announcement on October 9, 2006 in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea said today it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed successfully and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.

U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday that the reported test poses a threat to global peace and security and denounced it as "unacceptable."

Mr. Bush said the action "deserves an immediate response" by the UN Security Council.

Earlier, White House spokesman Tony Snow called for “immediate actions to respond to this unprovoked act” and said that the United States is closely monitoring the situation and “reaffirms its commitment to protect and defend our allies in the region.”

South Korea's geological institute estimated that the test's power was equivalent to 550 tonnes of TNT.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday, however, that North Korea's nuclear test was equivalent to 5,000 tonnes to 15,000 tonnes of TNT.

By comparison the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War was equivalent to 15,000 tonnes of TNT.

The U.S. Geological Survey said it recorded a magnitude-4.2 seismic event in northeastern North Korea. Asian neighbours also said they registered a seismic event, but only Russia said its monitoring services had detected a nuclear explosion.

“It is 100 per cent (certain) that it was an underground nuclear explosion,” said Lieutenant-General Vladimir Verkhovtsev, head of a Defense Ministry department, according to Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency.

Although North Korea has long said it had the capability to produce a bomb, the test was the first manifest proof of its membership in a small group of nuclear-armed nations. The test may dramatically alter the strategic balance of power in the Pacific region and tend to undermine already fraying global anti-proliferation efforts.

“If the test (is) true, it will severely endanger not only Northeast Asia but also the world stability,” Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, facing his first major foreign policy test since his recent election, called for a “calm yet stern response.”

South Korea said it had put its military on high alert but said it noticed no unusual activity among North Korea's troops.

China, the North's closest ally and the impoverished nation's main source of food, expressed its “resolute opposition” to the reported test and urged the North to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks. It said the North “defied the universal opposition of international society and flagrantly conducted the nuclear test.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the test was a “completely irresponsible act,” and its Foreign Ministry warned of international repercussions.

The White House said a test defied world opinion.

Russia, which borders North Korea, had urged Pyongyang not to conduct a nuclear test. Mr. Ivanov voiced concern last week about the environmental consequences for Russia. The Foreign Ministry warned that a test would add to regional tensions and undermine the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.

The North has refused for a year to attend six-party international talks aimed at persuading it to disarm. The country pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 2003 after U.S. officials accused it of a secret nuclear program, allegedly violating an earlier nuclear pact between Washington and Pyongyang.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the underground test was performed successfully and there was no dangerous radioactive leakage as a result.

North Korean scientists “successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions,” the government-controlled agency said, adding this was “a stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.”

“It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the ... people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defence capability,” KCNA said. “It will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the area around it.”

South Korea said the test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. (9:36 p.m. EDT Sunday) in Hwaderi near Kilju city on the northeastern coast. South Korean intelligence officials said the seismic wave had been detected in North Hamkyung province, the agency said.

No increase in radiation levels was detected in Russia's Primorye territory, which borders North Korea, the Russian news agency Interfax quoted regional meteorological service spokesman Sergei Slobodchikov as saying. Vladivostok, a large port city on Russia's Pacific Coast, is about 100 kilometres from the short border with North Korea.

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun convened a meeting of security advisers over the test, Yonhap reported. The Japanese government set up a task force in response, Kyodo news agency said.

A UN Security Council resolution adopted in July after a series of North Korean missile launches imposed limited sanctions on North Korea and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program – a demand that was immediately rejected.

The resolution bans all UN member states from selling material or technology for missiles or weapons of mass destruction to North Korea – and it bans all countries from receiving missiles, banned weapons or technology from Pyongyang.

Speculation over a possible North Korean test arose earlier this year after U.S. and Japanese reports cited suspicious activity at a suspected underground test site.

South Korean stocks plunged Monday following North Korea's announcement of the test. The South Korean won also fell sharply. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi) fell as low as 1,303.62, a 3.6-per-cent drop.

Markets in South Korea, the world's 10th largest economy, have long been considered vulnerable to potential geopolitical risks emanating from the North. The two countries, which fought the 1950-53 Korean War, are divided by the world's most heavily armed border.

The two Koreas, which fought a 1950-53 war that ended in a cease-fire that has yet to be replaced with peace treaty, are divided by the world's most heavily armed border. They have made unprecedented strides toward reconciliation, however, since their leaders met at their first-and-only summit in 2000.

The South had planned to ship 4,000 tonnes of cement to the North on Tuesday as emergency relief following massive flooding there, but has decided to delay it, Yonhap reported, quoting an unidentified Unification Ministry official.

South Korea had said the one-time aid shipment was separate from its regular humanitarian aid to the North, which it has halted after Pyongyang's missile launches in July.

Impoverished and isolated North Korea has relied on foreign aid to feed its 23 million people since its state-run farming system collapsed in the 1990s following decades of mismanagement and the loss of Soviet subsidies.
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The United States has leveled North Korea with 10 precision-aimed nuclear warheads on our fastest, quietest, stealth rockets.

In retaliation, North Korea has shipped 50 camels (dromedaries), borrowed from Osama bin Laden, to New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Crawford, Texas.  These beasts of burden are loaded down with modular component nukes, which must be assembled on-site.

A group of oriental-looking people with camels has just been arrested in New York City outside the Port Authority while in the process of putting their modular bombs together. How these camels managed to get into midtown Manhattan is anybody’s guess. If you pay your tolls, are not Black, and don't speed, I guess you're OK in New York.

Another group of camels and their riders have been captured en route to Crawford, Texas. They were only 800 miles away from their intended target. It is projected that they would have reached Crawford by next Thursday, had they not been intercepted. At first glance this may not seem all that dangerous; but a 10-camel caravan riding through Texas would hardly have been noticed, except by tourists. Kim Jong-il’s rocket program encountered failure after failure. Without long-range rockets to deliver the payloads, N. Korea had no other option but to resort to the camel route.

A Bush administration official said that even if the modular A-bomb had been constructed at the Port Authority, the bomb would not have detonated. It seems that not only were the fuses too wet to be of any use because the camels had to swim to New York from Baghdad, but also that method of ignition was completely useless, even if the fuses were dry.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus was reported to have said, “I have really done it now. They will never be able to lob A-bombs across the Atlantic to attack this remote land”. Of course at the time, no one understood what Chris was talking about.

It seems to me that searching each and every container, imported into the US, and REAL BORDER SECURITY would be cheaper in the long run than even deploying 1 nuclear endowed rocket; but "W" likes to make a Big Splash and wants to be remembered. He's always been jealous of Truman.

Mr. President:

You cannot let one little atomic test in puny little North Korea make you become a Democratic Dove. What will the Religious Right say if you show any fear of a N. Korean nuke attack! Stand on the deck of a nuclear sub or Air Force One in your best Hitler impersonation and announce the following strategies.

A-Bomb North Korea 1st over there so we won’t have to run for a

                                             

over here!

Put all North Koreans in the USA in Internment Camps. That did the trick when we put the Japanese in them during WWII. While you are about it, you may as well put all South Koreans in the USA in Internment Camps too. How can you tell a North Korean from a South Korean? After all, they all look alike.

Expel all North Korean and South Korean ambassadors and other embassy personnel. I know you’d like to line them up and shoot the fuckers, but we can’t afford another scandal in the UN at this time.

Send Condoleezza back to North Korea. That angry bitch will make them so mad over there, they just might strike us 1st and negate the necessity for making excuses to the UN after we A-bomb the hell out of those bastards. Hell, you can afford to lose New York City – lots of Negroes, Jews, slant-eyed short people and Democrats. Good riddance I say!  Without all those unwanted types, New York State just might go RED in 2008.

Invade North Korea! They may not have any oil we want, but they certainly have WMDs. After all, you invaded Iraq on the pretense that Saddam had WMDs. This time, you don’t have to make it up – even the New York Times confirmed the N. Korean nuclear test.

Close all Korean restaurants and Take-Outs. Who knows what evils they may concoct to poison Americans!

Ignore Teddy Roosevelt’s adage, “Speak softly but carry a big stick”. You have always practiced “Yell loudly and often and carry a bigger stick!” If you can’t scare them into submission, maybe you can destroy their auditory nerves and eustachian tubes.

Go to Defcon 3 or 4 or 5 or 4 or 19 or something. That may not scare the North Koreans, but it sure as hell scares the bejeebees out of Americans. So long as we’re scared, we’ll shoot anybody with slanted eyes. Once you begin profiling all the slanted-eyes folk, you won’t have time or personnel to profile and incarcerate my Black people for smoking grass. I knew there was a silver lining in there somewhere.

If we’re going to fight a nuclear war with North Korea, I guess you will have to clear out of Iraq and forget about Chavez for the time being. Those War Doves have been begging you to “Get out of Iraq!” This may not exactly be a peace initiative, but it’s the 2nd best way of clearing out and letting the Iraqis live again without wishing Saddam were still in power. And nobody will say, “Bush cut and run” if you merely redeploy your troops to inflict genocide on another non-Caucasian race.

Lastly, I want to thank Pat Robertson. We collaborated on this story. After talking extensively with Pat, I now see the light. The Neocons were right all along. Hitler was Nuts, but Bush is a man of God!

I just arranged to have the following epitaph on my tombstone:

What better epitaph could George W. Bush have wished for than

In 1981's 'Body Heat', Kathleen Turner said, "Knowledge is power".

 

T.A.B.A.C.C.O.  (Truth About Business And Congressional Crimes Organization)

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