'Major blast' hits North Korea

[rndmprsn]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea.blast.ap/

oh my...

[KittyWampus]

1. Remember That Train That Blew Up?

[iwantmycountryback]

2. But invading Iraq was necessary!

Now I'm kinda scared, but not b/c Bush is trying to scare me.

[jeff30997]

3. Could it be :

:nuke: ?

[Maddy McCall]

4. Nuke?

OMG...the article raises that possibility. Crater big enough to be seen by a satellite.

[Bread and Circus]

5. Shit, who know's, it might have been an accident...

hundreds of thousands might of died.

North Korea seems like to tiny of a country to conduct a Nuke test.

There is a little thing called fallout.

[iwantmycountryback]

17. Kim Jong Il's

Never struck me as someone who would care if a bunch of his own people died.

[swag]

6. To cop the NYT Sunday editorial's phrase

If facts mattered in this election

a North Korean nuke test would be disastrous for Bush. Since only very strange feelings seem to matter to many people, though, an NK nuke test could be another plus for Bush, just as his phenomenally fucked up wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are pluses for him, among a certain set of, um, well never mind the quite fitting insults.

[mikehiggins]

8. Are we safer?

I think a NK nuke disaster would be equally a disaster for Chimp and the Neocons. Why didn't we go after NK, which we KNEW was producing weapons of mass destruction, instead of Iraq?

Are we safer now?

[swag]

11. If facts mattered . . .

Perhaps your question would be the resonant emotional one though.

[salvorhardin]

7. AP is reporting a mushroom cloud

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion

[newsguyatl]

9. from cnn

U.S. official: Large cloud over North Korea not nuclear
(CNN) -- A large cloud appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago, but a U.S. official told CNN it is "no big deal" and not the result of a nuclear explosion.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency is reporting a mushroom cloud over two miles wide (4 km) and a massive explosion happened in North Korea's northernmost province on Sept. 9 -- the 56th anniversary of North Korea's founding.

South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Sunday the government was aware of the reports and is checking them.

The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.
None of North Korea's known nuclear sites are in the country's northernmost provinces.
However, The New York Times Saturday reported that President Bush and his top advisers recently received intelligence reports that could indicate North Korea is preparing a nuclear test, citing senior officials with access to the intelligence.

[funky_bug]

12. This proves one thing... well, maybe two...

Scenerio 1 - it was a nuke, and CNN is whoring.

Scenerio 2 - it was a forest fire, but we jumped to conclusions, basically confirming the fact that the elephant in the room is real. NK is a threat, we all KNOW it, and Bush can't attack the monsters under our bed. When the lights go out, the fear is just as real.

[Eric J in MN]

16. How would a forest fire create an exposion and a crater? nt

nt

[Eric J in MN]

13. I wish we had an administration which didn't LIE so much.

If a Clinton official said the explosion wasn't nuclear, I would take comfort in that, but a Bush official may just be trying to cover up its failed negotiations with North Korea.

[swag]

14. Honestly, it could be a forest fire, and the "blast" may just be falsely

inferred, especially given an apparent absence of seismographic data.

I've lived out west long enough to have seen an impressive array of mushroom clouds from fires.


I certainly hope that's what it is.

[rndmprsn]

10. BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648794.stm

[phish420]

15. deleted

[phish420]

18. nevermind, shouldnt have deleted

the links are almost the same, but the stories are different - this one is an hour later, the link on the main CNN page...talking about a 'cloud 2 miles wide' that the US claims is a forest fire...but the original post speaks of some train wreck...
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea.blast/index.html

I smell something rank

[Demi_Babe]

19. N.Korea Blast Unlikely to Have Been Atomic-S.Korea Minister

N.Korea Blast Unlikely to Have Been Atomic-S.Korea Minister

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SEOUL (Reuters) - A huge blast three days ago in North Korea (news - web sites) was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test, South Korea (news - web sites)'s unification minister said on Sunday.



According to Yonhap news agency, Chung Dong-young told South Korean reporters after a National Security Council meeting that Seoul's assessment so far was the explosion was unlikely to have been linked to the North's nuclear arms ambitions.

[Northern Experiment]

20. I don't believe em.....

Seems to me that NK is testing and they are just covering the lies to not put everyone in panic mode. Hopefully they are being truthful about this.

[newyawker99]

21. Hi Northern Experiment!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: