Posted June 15, 2009 1:40 PM
by Mark Silva
The North Koreans set off a small nuclear bomb in that recent underground test that the United States and other nations condemned as a provocative act.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued this brief statement today "on North Korea's Declared Nuclear Test on May 25, 2009
""The U.S. Intelligence Community assesses that North Korea probably conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of P'unggye on May 25, 2009. The explosion yield was approximately a few kilotons. Analysis of the event continues."
The estimated force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima: 13-18 kilotons.
Comments
Republicans are screaming that we invade North Korea RIGHT NOW!!!
However, there is no proof that NK holds significant reserves of oil underneath its soil, so ...
Posted by: BC | June 15, 2009 3:35 PM
BC,
There already are some Neocon nutjobs (Bill Kristol, Brit Hume) calling for the bombing of North Korea.
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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/06/kristol-and-hume-call-for-targeted-air-strikes-on-north-korea.php
Posted by: Hey Joe | June 15, 2009 4:46 PM
BC, who is claiming we should invade NK RIGHT NOW!!! I am pulling for you in the battle with the strawman you created.
Posted by: Herbie H. | June 15, 2009 5:56 PM
Non-proliferation? Five days before Obama took office, BushCo signed a deal for the USA to help the UAE build three nuclear reactors. How stable is the UAE? We have seen how easy it is for nations to weaponize this stuff. See US-UAE Nuclear Deal Melting Down--guardian.co.uk 6/14/09
Posted by: Vivian | June 15, 2009 6:05 PM
BC,
The Neocon psychopaths, like John Bolton, are supporting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stolen election victory in Iran. They need him around as a boogie man to scare people into believing their warmongering theories and to keep the big dollars flowing into the whack-job Conservative "think tanks" that they scare people for, like A I E.
Posted by: Robert R | June 15, 2009 9:26 PM
Thank the Lord we listened to the Republicans and bombed the crap out of Iran, at the cost of many billions, while shedding more American blood and further decimating our standing in the Muslim world!
I mean, honestly, had we not heeded the sage consul of such mouth-breathing Conservative intellectual luminaries as Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh and That Smirky Dude™ (y'know, the one who was President for the few minutes between the Clinton and Cheney administrations)....we would never have successfully traumatized a generation of Iranians (like we did their next door neighbor Iraq), because without doing so... without intimidating them with a well branded death march like "Shock And Awe II, Nucular Boogaloo"... we know it would be impossible for change to ever come to such a backward, insular region of the world, where the people have been so completely brainwashed by religion, that they're unable to stand-up for themselves and make their voices heard.
Seriously, I bow to President John "Beach Boys" McCain who has faithfully continued the War In Iran (and, before you say it, OF COURSE, I'm as disturbed as anyone about the awful but unavoidable photos of dead children and the rape scandal currently coming out of the detention camp in Tehran), because we now see that without such senseless loss of human life it'd not be possible for us to see images like THIS...coming out of Iran.
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/2459163303_ef4a6c697a.jpg?v=0
Posted by: bubba Porter | June 16, 2009 2:17 AM
When are you planning on covering the illegal firing of the IG at Americorps by BMO?
Posted by: jorge paisano | June 16, 2009 5:20 AM
Hey Herbie: ever hear of a guy called Bill Kristol?
Posted by: BC | June 16, 2009 9:07 PM