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There are several serious questions that need to be asked about North Korea’s apparently successful nuclear weapons test this morning.
SEOUL, South Korea —Â
 Japan’s Prime MinisterShinzo Abe and U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush agreed Monday to push for “decisive action” against North Korea at the U.N. Security Council over the communist regime’s claim it had carried out a successful nuclear weapons test.
Late Sunday night, a senior Bush administration official told FOX News that North Korea had completed a successful test of a nuclear weapon.
1. Could it be that North Korea was demonstrating to potential buyers that their nukes actually worked?
2. How much could the islamofascist network pay for a nuclear weapon? I think it is safe to assume they would pay any amount necessary so it is a question of resources.
3. Would Iran or other nations sympathetic to the islamofascist cause help islamofascists purchase a nuclear weapon from North Korea?
4. If a nuclear weapon were detonated in an American city would we be able to determine that weapons country of origin?
**Update**
A couple of obvious quesitons I left off of my original list:
5. How quickly can Soul be evacuated in the event of an attack from the North, or as a precaution before we launch some sort of attack against NK?
6. What should the American response be to this provocation from North Korea?
7. What can we reasonably expect other countries to do in reaction to this test?
I am sure that very smart people in our intelligence agencies have already asked and answered those questions some time ago. It seem to me these are questions our main stream media should be asking and reporting on now.
Do you have any other important questions that I left out?
Don Surber has answers one of them:
France would not lift a finger to save itself if it knew the Unite States were helping.
**Update** Commenter Scott has an excellent variation on one of my questions:
A variation of one question would be: Was the test a method of verifying a
workable nuke for someone who has taken delivery already but witholds payment until proof of design. Presumably some critical component is kept off site at neutral third party until money paid. This gets around difficulty of exporting weapons caused by blockade in response to test.
Lots of people blogging on this today:
Townhall.com has several updates.
The Gun Toting Liberal says North Korean Nukes won’t stop the Foley Story:
Nope. Not that easily, my friend - the “Mark Foley story†is the TRUE story of a pedophile, lurking within the Halls of Congress, preying upon children as THE top House “brass†worked behind the scenes to cover it up.
GTL is of course jumping to some very big conclusions that are yet to be proven. Mark Foley is a scum bag that is certain, but pedophile? that remains to be proven.
A military reader sends an illustration of the various ranges of North Korea’s missiles. He writes: “Looking at their Taepo Dong 2 (two stage) missile range, nearly half our country is in range.”
Think it’s serious now?
Just last week one of Mr. Il’s puppets stated flatly the next Korean American war would be fought inside the United States.
Dean Barnett has the first in depth commentary I have read over at Hugh Hewitt’s blog:
So what’s next? Almost certainly the problem will be referred to the U.N. Security Council where the world’s finest diplomats will try to bore the North Koreans to death. But that won’t work, and neither will any of the other tepid and irresolute courses of inaction likely to emanate from Turtle Bay.
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So let’s look what we have in the eye, and really use this moment for some learning. We embarked on a long war five years ago. But the past five years have been similar to England’s Bore War of 1939-1940. Even though England was at war with Germany, business in England went along pretty much as usual.
Captain Ed puts this mornings test in perspective:
No one would shrug at a bomb that has one-third of the power of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, but we expected more than that — and right now, it looks like Kim only has a bomb one-tenth of that size.
[tags] North Korea, Nukes, WMD, China, Japan, Kim Jong Il [/tags]
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North Korea Conducted Nuke Test…
Update: A second test coming??? Wizbang via Reuters!
The chief of South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers on Monday it was possible North Korea would carry out a second nuclear test, Seoul’s Yonhap news agency quoted one MP as sa…
Trackback by Stop The ACLU � October 9, 2006 @ 8:03 am
I think that as a first measure, Japan and South Korea should conduct simultaneous nuke tests of their own within the week.
Comment by RTO Trainer � October 9, 2006 @ 9:13 am
North Korea tests nuke… could this have been avoided?…
We all know by now that I’m not particularly fond of President Bush’s “style of Gub’mint”. And in case you DIDN’T know, I’m not too fond of North Korean “President” Kim Jong-Il’s latest, de…
Trackback by Gun Toting Liberal � October 9, 2006 @ 9:17 am
North Korea Tests A Nuke…
Of the three most unstable, evil regimes (Iraq, Iran, and N.Korea) the only one we can say for sure that does not have any WMD is Iraq. We know this because we took that regime out, which also had the added side effect of getting Libya to denounce WMD …
Trackback by Flopping Aces � October 9, 2006 @ 9:42 am
Speculation…
There is a lot of speculation right now that the nuclear weapon North Korea claims to have detonated may have been a dud. It's a little early to go down that road, I think. There are some presumptions about what Kim was trying to accompli…
Trackback by Blue Crab Boulevard � October 9, 2006 @ 11:06 am
More Doubts Arise Over North Korean Claim…
Bizarrely (although isn’t everthing with this regime bizarre?), the possibility that it was not just a dud, but not even a nuke exists:
Even as North Korea came under international condemnation today after boasting that it had tested a nuclear de…
Trackback by Decision '08 � October 9, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
Don’t make me come over there……
The Real Ugly American has some good questions about this NoKoNuke situation.
Here’s mine: do we have a “Nanny 911″ for governments?…
Trackback by reverse_vampyr � October 9, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
A variation of one question would be: Was the test a method of verifying a workable nuke for someone who has taken delivery already but witholds payment until proof of design. Presumably some critical component is kept off site at neutral third party until money paid. This gets around difficulty of exporting weapons caused by blockade in response to test. Variation of the rabbit is in the garden before you put up the fence to keep them out.
Comment by Scott McKee � October 9, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
The left wing losers of the Dumbocrat party have taken amnother step on their extinction. Ignoring the 75% of the 9/11 civilian victims were DDumbocrats, they seem hellbent on getting NYC, DC or LA Dumbocrat dense cities nuked.
If the Dumbocrats lose 10,000,000 voters their party is history. If any of these cities go boom, the only pleasant side effect is that most of their dopey more-money-than-brains elite idiots will turn to glowing gas too.
Gee ACLU gone. Move.org $ Georgie gone, Sean Penn, Babwa and the rest of the Hollyweirdos will just be glowing gas in the dark. Hope Schumer and Sharpton are home at the time along with Willie and Hillary… Somehow I predict the remanants will be baying the Bush knew ahead of time and planned it….
Comment by Stan Peterson � October 9, 2006 @ 10:14 pm
Kim Jong Il’s Hot Young Despots Chat Room…
There’s no sense in even asking us. Because we can’t tell you. We just can’t disclose the nature of our unique (and some would say illegal) terrorist surveillance technology. Suffice it to say that many have tried to emulate our Blogotronic™ chat-r…
Trackback by Doug Ross @ Journal � October 10, 2006 @ 3:16 am
I really don’t get it. No other superpower in the history of the world would have put up with what we put up with.
Let’s put some facts together:
1. Government has a duty to protect its citizens.
2. Because of world travel and trade, our moats no longer significantly limit contact with foreigners.
3. Horrible things happening throughout the world (nukes in the hands of nutjobs, famines, violent oppression by Muslims, etc) can significantly affect the US in terms of spread of disease or violence.
4. Spread of the principles of liberty can be seriously helped by (and may only really occur in concert with) the spread of Christianity.
The conclusion? We need to impose the Pax Americana for real instead of this hit-or-miss K-Mart bit we’re doing now (not that I don’t consider W’s efforts as far superior to the Defeatocrats best). We don’t need to risk large numbers of troops either. We need to announce to the world that we will simply no longer allow the following (not an all-inclusive list):
1. nukes in anybody else’s hands unless we approve it
2. violence against citizens on a large scale (e.g. Rwanda, Sudan, fill-in-the-blank-of-wherever-Muslims-are-killing-everyone-else)
3. the wholesale teaching of children that the US, Israel, etc are bad, and that killing infidels is OK
Anyplace that’s not immediately down with this list (e.g. NK, Iran, most of the Muslim world including our ‘buddies’ the Saudis, etc) will then be notified that they have 2 weeks to enforce compliance or we’ll do it for them. If necessary, and with suitable advance warning to allow for evacuation, we nuke their capitol. When we invade, we don’t send large numbers of troops; we send Jr High principals, and county execs, and special forces. I suspect that they’ll be adequate to clean up the mess. If they’re shot at, we drop back 10 and lob a tactical on the location.
I predict it will take 1, maybe 2, nukes to garner abject surrender. It took 2 with the Japanese, but Muslims and Commies don’t have that ‘death before surrender’ bit; they honor superior firepower.
Yeah, yeah, I know; innocent citizens will die. They’re dying now.
What give us the right? See above; gov’t has a duty to protect citizens, and the wacko actions of Muslims and Commies are endangering our citizens unacceptably.
They’ll hate us? They hate us now. Do you really think the parents of the kids that will suddenly be living in a US protectorate a la Guam i/o the squalid dictatorship they’re in now will continue to hate us as we markedly improve their lives?
Now I’m no expert at either international relations or Biblical government theory, so I’m sure I’m missing something here. I know the political will to do this isn’t in place currently, but a large-scale attack (nuke, etc) might change that. So what’s wrong with the idea? Anyone?
Comment by Doc � October 10, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
Bravo to North Korea. While working on my PHD at Baylor, I spent some time there and came to know what a great leader Kim Jong Il really is. The bush-controlled press has so villified him as well as his country that world view of it is totally distorted
Nancy Hutto
nhutto@kellyrealtors.com
Comment by Nancy Hutto � October 16, 2006 @ 11:52 am