North Korea Is Testing Nukes

There was an "earthquake".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/north-korea-nuclear-test-earthquake

 

Hopefully Kim Jong-un was at the epicenter...

 

If confirmed, the timing of Friday’s test is significant as it would coincide with the 68th anniversary of the country’s founding by Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong-un.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they accidentally blow themselves up eventually.

 

That does sound about right... They aren't the sharpest pencils in the box.

 

good good ,it limits the amount of useful material they have..

 

I'm quaking in my boots.

 

Why doesnt China freak out about this more though? They are on their doorstep

They could easily mop the floor with the Nth Koreans and no one else would really give a s**t

Unless Nth Korea is just a proxy chinese province

 

Because NK still doesn't have a truly portable nuke yet. Even their smallest detonation (oddly equal to what a suitcase nuke might yield) was connected to a trailer full of hard wired control systems. Unless they make a missile 3 times fatter than the largest Taepodong they can't fit the trailer next to the bomb. They're almost caught in a technological paradox, a nuke in name only since the only place it can be effectively used, is in North Korea.

But give that some thought too. What if Kim's off surfing with Beyonce' when a trailer nuke is delivered to the basement while parliament (SPA) is in session, and it goes off just as a missile from a submarine off the coast just happens to strike from above. Then the sub would be scuttled by a bomb the crew doesn't know about, so nobody knows who launched the missile. But the effect will be the same, North Korea will appear to have been nuked by a cowardly enemy that ran after destroying the capital.

Naturally the US would be the prime suspect, after all, it happened before. The US would deny it, as expected. They'd demand an inspection to try for a nuclear signature and identify the reactor where the subcritical fuel was made. North Korea would clamp down like a steel trap and kick out everyone who wasn't 100% national. Then they'd demand immediate humanitarian aid, and get it. Kim would claim responsibility for the influx of Twinkies and beef jerky as well as surviving a nuclear blast, because of his divinity and sheer will. The people will cheer as they gain up to 3.4 kilograms each. When the last of the nuclear evidence has been relocated and secretly stored, the capital will be built with dump trucks full of UN cash, no questions asked. This condition will persist for 50 or so years or until Kim is killed trying to have sex while parasailing. The girl survives, but is executed for not breaking the dear leader's fall.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers did a comic strip about an international terrorist who has a bomb shaped like a soccer ball and only known to have horrifying power. What nobody knows, except the Freak Brothers, is that Andre the Hyena, has only 1 bomb. I could only find a bit of it http://comixjoint.com/freakbrothers9-sample1.html

But there's a thread from the past http://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/433835-anyone-remember-the-fabulous-furry-freak-bros/

 

But what do you think the deal is with NKorea? Another western created boogeyman or something else or something more?

 

South Korea is just as oppressive in some instances as the North

 

They're essentially a glorified cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_cult_of_personality

 

Basically, yes. They wouldn't be allowed to exist if they were a legitimate and imminent threat. Keep in mind they got their nuclear reactors from the US, which people like Donald Rumsfeld played a role in.

 

Lol. North Korea was clearly invented by ISIS so that they could obtain their nuclear reactors from the US, in which people like Donald Rumsfeld played a role in before and or after 9/11

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ

 

You won the prize with your last guess. They are willing to do things, and can get away with things the Chinese Government could only do in their dreams.

They're basically Chinas's guard dog, and I'm sure they encourage their behavior to try to provoke them into doing something stupid to either the US, South Korea, or even Japan.

 

I see them more as fly paper than a guard dog. While NK does outrageous crap, who's watching China? I realize NK has a large armed force, but their resources are stretched so thin that a cornerstone of their battle plans includes capturing food stores and taking food from dead enemies. That's century old thinking.

The nuclear program in NK has been the perfect diversion. All the UN flies are stuck so tightly they're addicted. And as I said before, while they have a small enough bomb, the only control systems they have are legacy Chinese mixed with some modern enhancements supplied by Iranian spies. But even if NK got one of their nukes to fly, what would they do about their target's ability to return with a strike that ends NK's nuclear program as well as their ability to make electricity or clean water? They don't have the resources to endure a nuclear war. Even if they had 50 nukes, they'd never get them all into the air.

As mighty as NK seems on paper, they have a variety of vulnerabilities that only China could counter. But China is heading into the heartbreak of rapid economic expansion. If they don't fill those cities they built in Africa and start exploiting the resources, they'll be headed for famine once again and limiting population won't be enough to stave it off. Most of our economic models are useless without continuous growth. We'll all feel the global squeeze, from the top down. And the bottom up.

 

Anybody remember the Chinese media being fooled when The Onion named Kim Jong-un as the sexiest man alive for 2012? It's a frightening enemy that can't catch something so blatantly satirical.

http://www.theonion.com/article/kim-jong-un-named-the-onions-sexiest-man-alive-for-30379

 

I'm hoping Kim Jong-un shoots one of those missiles and pisses off Marvin the Martian.

That should fix that. His X-22 Explosive Space Modulator would wipe Kim Jong's ass out. China would be stunned.

 

The real news here is Putin condeming the latest test. That's unprecedented and important.