Was it a nuke? Was it just TNT? Why are serious (not Fox News type) reporters asking this question? Start with why N Korea warned of this test so long ago. N Korea knows that no matter what happens in six way talks, the US will only do, again, what they did to the Jimmy Carter settlement. The only way that N Korea can open to the world is to eliminate the only nation that subverted a previous - almost successful - agreement.
First point: North Korea is demanding something so simple - two way talks only with the US. And as long as George Jr acts belligerent, then the cost increases to bring N Korea back into the world.
Second point is a legitamate queston: was that nuke real? N Korea has very good reason to explode anything and declare it nuclear because their only demand is two way talks with the US. Their demand is not, for one minute, extraordinary.
Whether this blast was nuclear or conventional can be determined from its geological signals. However, that means a complex analysis of existing N Korean geology must first be conducted. An analysis that could take months (although the analysis may have started long ago).
So what was this nuke? Third point: by now everyone here knows that even spend nuclear fuel from power plants can be used to make a bomb. The atomic bomb over Hiroshima had uranium only that poorly refined. But crudely refined uranium means the bomb must be large - far too large for a missile.
N Korea has a long way to go before a nuclear weapon can be placed on a missile. However those who decide using fear would have you forget that fact.
This N Korean nuclear test is not a threat to anyone. But it again demonstrates how dangerous the world gets when extremist type leaders would advocate pre-emption, "Mission Accomplished" wars and outrightly denies negotiation (do to a political agenda and a 'big dic' mindset). Like those missile tests last 4 July 2006 - this explosion (nuclear or conventional) is only a message to you. Do you want responsible leaders who can avert war (as Jimmy Carter did) or do you want more 'Pearl Harbors'?
The longer that the US snubs North Korea requests for negotiations, then the greater this risk becomes. And the more expensive a solution becomes. Another tribute to that mental midget who gave an 'axis of evil' speech - to intentionaly create instability and nuclear proliferation. (Same president also wants to reward India for their nuclear program.)
Fourth point: if we don't start bringing N Korea into the world, then this is as inevitable as the civil war in Iraq. N Korea will eventually put nuclear weapons on missiles. A situation that is completely avoidable now if we start by condemning, for example, the 'we want war' attitudes expressed by California's congressman Rohrbaugh on a BBC interview.
Four points made: 1) was it really nuclear, 2) why did they do this after so much warning, 3) what really is the threat, and 4) what should be our long term objectives rather than our current 'big dic' 'we fear to negotiate' attitude.
Jimmy Carter showed how all this could have been avoided. George Jr promotes an agenda that has no strategic objective and therefore can only create war as its final solution.
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