North Korean Mushroom Cloud?

[GuyJean]

Blast, Mushroom Cloud Reported in N. Korea
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040911_1461.html

A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.

Citing an unidentified source in Beijing, Yonhap said the explosion happened on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. The damage and crater left by the explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county was big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said.

"We understand that a mushroom-shaped cloud about 3.5- to 4- kilometer (2.2 miles to 2.5 miles) in diameter was monitored during the explosion," Yonhap quoted an unidentified diplomatic source in Seoul as saying.

Has anyone heard this on the local news?

GJ

[AssKissinger]

There goes the neighborhood.

[tonikoro]

If this took place on Thursday, it's almost uncanny that this is not Buzzing on Japanese Mass-comi.

F**King scary as that ballistic missile test they plunked down in the sea of Japan.

[cstaylor]

Atomic Activity in North Korea Raises Concerns

President Bush and his top advisers have received intelligence reports in recent days describing a confusing series of actions by North Korea that some experts believe could indicate the country is preparing to conduct its first test explosion of a nuclear weapon, according to senior officials with access to the intelligence.

[Taro Toporific]

If this took place on Thursday, it's almost uncanny that this is not Buzzing on Japanese Mass-comi.
F**King scary as that ballistic missile test they plunked down in the sea of Japan.

Missed us, na, na, na, naaah.





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Not on NHK, Fuji TV or TBS
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/

Major blast occurred in N. Korea on Thurs.: Yonhap
SEOUL, Sept. 12, Kyodo -
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20040912905

[GuyJean]

Not on NHK, Fuji TV or TBS
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/

I just saw a brief 20 second blurb on NHK News 50 while watching the Mariners get ass-pounded and fist-fucked by the BoSox.. Mariners suck.. NHK didn't have any details]after[/i] a nuclear blast hits.. Of course, maybe that's the best way..

I'm turning Japanese!

GJ

[tonikoro]

If this took place on Thursday, it's almost uncanny that this is not Buzzing on Japanese Mass-comi.
F**King scary as that ballistic missile test they plunked down in the sea of Japan.

Missed us, na, na, na, naaah.

Sorry, I thought it had been near the sea of japan to have caused concern back then.

[AssKissinger]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040912/ts_nm/korea_north_minister_dc_2

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

We'll see

[AssKissinger]

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

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.

[Skankster]

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dang thats scary.
that is like ultimate suspicious.

[American Oyaji]

This wasnt even in the news here in the states.

[cstaylor]

This wasnt even in the news here in the states.

It was in the NY Times.

[deltaco]

I'm making tinfoil hats as fast as I can.

[Mulboyne]

Just watched a guy on BBC world who said that it is too soon to tell what it was. Coming on the heels of South Korean scientists efforts to develop weapons-grade materials, he reckoned you can't rule out a the possiblity that North Korea conducted a nuclear test. If the test was in a cave, it wouldn't necessarily produce a mushroom cloud. Also, it is possible to obscure a nuclear test with a conventional arms test.
He reckoned that Japan could develop nuclear capabilty within six months so the possibility of an escalation is real.
Nice, cheery news.
More BBC:
Q&A: North Korea's nuclear threat

[Greener]

There are people around the world who think that South Korea embracing Kim as their leader would be a GOOD thing. Fools.

The bottom line is that this A-Hole has declared war on the US, Japan, China and Christ knows who else. You know how I feel about red china but how happy do you think Beijing is that their "friends" are nuclear testing on their boarder? I have a strange feeling that it will be china who puts Kim down before the west does...

[Taro Toporific]

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Nice, cheery news.

Banquet Given on DPRK Birthday
Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) --The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) government arranged a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday evening in celebration of the 56th anniversary of the DPRK. Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, said at the banquet that President Kim Il Sung founded the DPRK on the basis of the tradition of building people's power established in the crucible of the anti-Japanese revolution under the banner of the Juche idea....

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N Korea denies explosion had nuclear links
(The Telegraph, UK 12/Sept/2004)...The latest blast took place in Kimhyungjik county near the Chinese border on Thursday last week, when North Korea marked the 56th anniversary of its founding.

[Bongo]

There are people around the world who think that South Korea embracing Kim as their leader would be a GOOD thing. Fools.

The bottom line is that this A-Hole has declared war on the US, Japan, China and Christ knows who else. You know how I feel about red china but how happy do you think Beijing is that their "friends" are nuclear testing on their boarder? I have a strange feeling that it will be china who puts Kim down before the west does...

Did I miss something? Just when did Kim declare war on Japan & the US or on anyone else for that matter?
The US is the one declaring war with their "I'm a war president" nutter, and it's death for profit seeking corporations at the helm.

[kurohinge1]

...N Korea denies explosion had nuclear links
(The Telegraph, UK 12/Sept/2004)...The latest blast took place in Kimhyungjik county near the Chinese border on Thursday last week...

If they're using trains to transport their new toys around, it may've been another "all off - train terminating here" incident.

[Taro Toporific]

Blast was for dam project - N Korea
Independent Online, South Africa - 13 Sept
Seoul - A huge explosion in North Korea last week was a deliberate blast to pave the way for a hydro-electric dam, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as telling a visiting British official on Monday ...

[Taro Toporific]

TINFOIL HAT WARNING.....

From: Macte Virtute
http://www.nbr.org/foraui/message.aspx?LID=5&MID=14807
Subject: North Korea nuclear experiment?

Slashdot.org readers have suggested that if the explosion were a
convention mass of material, there would be a series of disturbances on
a seismograph. They say that a nuclear signature would have a single
spike. Here is the single spike for that day. (Sept 12 going back
three days)

http://photon.physics.hmc.edu/research/geo/day3_2.gif

Two .gifs of the seismograph are attached from this same site. The
first is the Benioff Short period E-W component and the second is the
Mercury Long period.

(main pagehttp://www.physics.hmc.edu/research ... .html#days">http://www.physics.hmc.edu/research/geo/seismo.html#days)

or

http://www.physics.hmc.edu/research/geo/

and then click on "previous days records"

The slashdot comments are here:

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/12/048255.shtml?tid=99&tid=1

Just imagine Japan's reaction if this were found to be nuclear. Having
lived in Nagasaki and given the size of the cloud and that the crater
"can be seen from satellite", it has the markings of a small nuke in my
opinion. As for the U.S. comment in one report about a "forest fire",
that sounds like CIA-speak while a response and policies are determined.

Date: 9/14/2004 4:10:00 PM
From: Bruno Desjardins
Subject: North Korea nuclear experiment?
http://www.nbr.org/foraui/message.aspx?LID=5&MID=14821

A "cover up", maybe not, but I am reminded of 1998 when N.K. launched its
Taepodong... Back then, China, Russia and the U.S. all minimized the launch
by endorsing Pyongyang's point of view that this was "only" an attempt at
placing a small satellite into orbit and not a military ballistic missile
test. Japan was the only regional power trying to make N.K. admit to the
test's military dimension or potential.

I don't know if Pyongyang's 1998 story was true or not, I believe the U.S.
military located what the missile's warhead "near" Alaska, so the satellite
explanation should be discredited, but in the weeks after the launch
American diplomacy played down the launch as did most major powers in the
region and Japan was isolated...

So what now? Cover up? Why not? I certainly will follow this with interest!

North Korea Offers to Show Site of Blast to Diplomats NY TIMES by James Brooke (International) 9AM 14 SepNorth Korea will show foreign diplomats the site of an explosion that it said was designed to blow up a mountain for a hydroelectric dam.

[Buraku]

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