North Korea conducts a second nuclear test

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North Korea has staged a "successful" underground nuclear test, the state-run KCNA agency reports.

The agency says it was more powerful than the previous one in October 2006.

A number of external agencies have confirmed a powerful explosion took place, suspected to be associated with a nuclear test.

US President Barack Obama described the North Korean action as a threat to international peace. Crisis talks were being held in South Korea.

Preparations for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council later on Monday are under way.

'Safeguarding sovereignty'

An official communique read out on North Korean state radio said another round of underground nuclear testing had been "successfully conducted... as part of measures to enhance the Republic's self-defensive nuclear deterrent in all directions".

It said the test had been "safely conducted at a new high level in terms of explosive power and control technology".

The test would "contribute to safeguard the sovereignty of the country and the nation and socialism", the communique said.

The US Geological Survey said a 4.7-magnitude quake was detected at 0054 GMT, 10km (six miles) underground.

Geological agencies in both South Korea and the US said the tremor indicated a nuclear explosion.

Russian news agencies quoted the defence ministry as saying said its systems had detected a blast of "between 10 and 20 kilotons" - making it much bigger than the 2006 test, which the US said was less than a kiloton.

Just hours after the test, North Korea appeared to have test-fired a short-range missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

Pyongyang has so far not commented on Yonhap's report.

The US state department said it was still analysing the available data from the test.

But in a strongly worded statement, President Obama said the North's pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatened peace and was in "blatant defiance of the United Nations Security Council".

"The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international community. We have been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the six-party talks as well as other members of the UN Security Council in the days ahead," his statement said.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura said any nuclear test by the North would be "unacceptable". Another government spokesman said action would be sought at the UN Security Council.

Russia's UN ambassador said an emergency meeting of the Security Council would be held later on Monday.

The European Union said that the development was "very worrying".

South Korea's stock market fell 4% on the news, over fears that regional tensions would rise.

Rocket condemnation

The North gave no details of the location of the test.

However, South Korean officials said earlier that a seismic tremor was detected in the north-eastern part around the town of Kilju - the site of North Korea's first nuclear test.

Last month, Pyongyang pulled out of six-party talks on its nuclear programme, in protest against international condemnation of its test-firing of a rocket on 5 April.

The UN Security Council adopted a statement calling on North Korea to comply with a 2006 resolution banning missile tests.

Pyongyang says its rocket carried a satellite, but several nations viewed it as cover for a missile test.

The six-party talks - involving the US, China, Japan, Russia and the two Koreas - have stalled over the failure of Pyongyang to verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear plant.

North Korea had agreed to dismantle the facility as part of an aid-for-disarmament deal and, in response, the US removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist.

But the North now believes it is no longer bound by its previous bilateral agreements with the US and agreements under the six-party talks, reports the BBC's John Sudworth in Seoul, South Korea.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8066615.stm

This'll be fun.
 
Already posted in the lounge.
 
GOD DAMNIT Monkey, we can't be having this shit man;
we can't
be
havin
dis
shit
 
I just love how America easily dismisses these tests. If this were Iran, America would have gone apeshit long ago. Not in this case. After all, you have to be an Islamic country to be considered a Terrorist.
 
Nah, it's probably more of a case of we have a full plate ATM.
 
Or maybe we won't give a shit anymore till they're successful.
 
TwwIX said:
I just love how America easily dismisses these tests. If this were Iran, America would have gone apeshit long ago. Not in this case. After all, you have to be an Islamic country to be considered a Terrorist.
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because nk doesn't threaten Israel,
They are the main reason we don't want Iran to have nukes.
 
TwwIX said:
I just love how America easily dismisses these tests. If this were Iran, America would have gone apeshit long ago. Not in this case. After all, you have to be an Islamic country to be considered a Terrorist.
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Maybe it's time some other countries got their hands dirty for once. Plus, I haven't heard of any North Koreans blowing up our buildings and planes.
 
TwwIX said:
I just love how America easily dismisses these tests. If this were Iran, America would have gone apeshit long ago. Not in this case. After all, you have to be an Islamic country to be considered a Terrorist.
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that's because NK actually has nuke capability whereas Iran has diddly



VirusType2 said:
Maybe it's time some other countries got their hands dirty for once. Plus, I haven't heard of any North Koreans blowing up our buildings and planes.
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neither has iran ..in fact those that did blow up buildings and planes came from saudi arabia. nuke saudi arabia ..oh wait there's too much oyle under dem tents
 
There's more. North Korea is now warning of overt military attacks:

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea warned South Korea and the United States on Wednesday that Seoul's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction is equal to a declaration of war.

South Korea announced its participation in the U.S.-led program on Tuesday, one day after North Korea defiantly conducted a nuclear test, drawing international criticism.

The North's military said in a statement that it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" against any attempt to stop and search North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
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From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30935610/
 
I hate N Korea, they ask for food aid to their country and then they pull this shit?!? lets let them starve if they're going to bite the hand that feeds them. or better yet lets poison kim and be done with it
 
so the peasants and poor should starve because the rich and powerful are idiots and madmen?
 
lol, ya they "elected" a totalitarian dictator


Although Kim is not required to stand for popular election to his key offices, he is unanimously elected to the Supreme People's Assembly every five years, representing a military constituency
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I wonder if Bush was still around if he'd deny the presence of N. Korea's nuclear program but claim Iran definitely has nukes?
 
every country has nukes....even if they don't know about it. also our oceans and areas are full of them
 
Serously though, this could lead to another Korean war. And becuase NK has nukes this time around I dout it will end nearly as well.
 
UnbredCylinder7 said:
Serously though, this could lead to another Korean war. And becuase NK has nukes this time around I dout it will end nearly as well.
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What?


No offense, but just what the heck?



The last war ended well? 4 million dead; three quarters of them civillians, the biggest minefield in the world built, 80% of all infrastructure destroyed, the people made to suffer inhuman poverty in absymal conditions for a decade, brother against brother killing one another?


And technically it's not even over.
 
I think it was a slip of the tongue. I thought it sounded strange too, but I believe what he meant is that this potential war could be far, far worse than the 20th Century Korean war.
 
I think the key here is to make China strongly condemn it, in order to show NK that they're out of allies.
 
Perhaps the key here is to bombard the shit out of those assholes by pouring every single armament in the aliied armies in that hell of a rebel occupied territory so that they get vaporized before even getting a chance to push the button, and simultaneously liberating the populace with purifying fire.



Just my opinion. :)
 
15357 said:
Perhaps the key here is to bombard the shit out of those assholes by pouring every single armament in the aliied armies in that hell of a rebel occupied territory so that they get vaporized before even getting a chance to push the button, and simultaneously liberating the populace with purifying fire.



Just my opinion. :)
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one sniper bullet and a really good sniper is all you need to liberate everyone from this idiot

kim-jong-il-r.jpg
 
Yeah but then some other mad lunatic takes over. There all just as mad as each other. I don't trust any of them to be sane to be honest.
 
15357 said:
Perhaps the key here is to bombard the shit out of those assholes by pouring every single armament in the aliied armies in that hell of a rebel occupied territory so that they get vaporized before even getting a chance to push the button, and simultaneously liberating the populace with purifying fire.



Just my opinion. :)
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Why can't they just make you leader already.
 
15357 said:
Perhaps the key here is to bombard the shit out of those assholes by pouring every single armament in the aliied armies in that hell of a rebel occupied territory so that they get vaporized before even getting a chance to push the button, and simultaneously liberating the populace with purifying fire.



Just my opinion. :)
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why the **** should the "allies" get involved with your little conflict? why should anyone give a shit if your country is steamrolled? no one gives a shit about the "spread of communism" it's time you took care of your own problems. NK is threat to no one but SK





I'm trying to illustrate that your solution is not really a solution that anyone but you/SK wants to see put into action. we're tired of waging wars on your behalf. solve your own problems leave us out of it
 
^^^ When was the last time Canada was involved in East Asian affairs, let alone intervention with the Koreas?
 
I think he was referring to the allied armies as a whole, not just Canada.
 
CptStern said:
why the **** should the "allies" get involved with your little conflict? why should anyone give a shit if your country is steamrolled? no one gives a shit about the "spread of communism" it's time you took care of your own problems. NK is threat to no one but SK





I'm trying to illustrate that your solution is not really a solution that anyone but you/SK wants to see put into action. we're tired of waging wars on your behalf. solve your own problems leave us out of it
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helping someone out takes 3 times the work load away. damn I need to stop playing Borderlands
 
CptStern said:
why the **** should the "allies" get involved with your little conflict? why should anyone give a shit if your country is steamrolled? no one gives a shit about the "spread of communism" it's time you took care of your own problems. NK is threat to no one but SK





I'm trying to illustrate that your solution is not really a solution that anyone but you/SK wants to see put into action. we're tired of waging wars on your behalf. solve your own problems leave us out of it
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Well, maybe because it was your (or rather, the western world + USSR's) fault that we got in this situation in the first place!
 
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