Lil' Kim's Cristmas suprise

[Taro Toporific]

Nuke tests 'by December'
Agence France-Presse / June 30, 2003
NORTH Korea has enough plutonium to make six to 10 nuclear weapons and could test such a weapon by the end of the year, a former US negotiator with the Stalinist state said in an interview published today.
"To the best of my knowledge, based on very well-informed Washington sources, North Korea's nuclear program is moving ahead very quickly," Kenneth Quinones was quoted as saying by the Daily Yomiuri.[[[Impossible to find on the useless unlabeled, undated, unsearchable Yomiurisite]]]
Full size JPEG here.

[Caustic Saint]

Ugh. I did not need to hear that. And here I am looking to get back to Korea in September.

Well, in honor of Kim's nukes:

[Steve Bildermann]

And here I am looking to get back to Korea in September.

Well if you stay where you are till after Christmas North Korea may come to *you*

[DJEB]

I read something - think it was on the Federation of American Scientists website, or it might have been Foreign Policy in Focus - that said there are 2 ways PRNK could go about building nukes: a fast method, or a slow method. NK had chosen the slow method (had they started with the fast way, they'd have dozens by now) stongly suggesting that they were manufacturing the crisis to play their favourite old game: brinksmanship.

If it were just about any other crew in the White House, I wouldn't be very worried. Let's just hope the neo-cons let Colin Powell do his job.

[Gaisaradatsuraku!]

yeah, I hope colin sends a tomahawk cruise missile right up Kim's patootie.

[Caustic Saint]

Actually I'm not too worried about going back. My parents were always worried about Mini Kim and other stuff while I was there, but it's really not that big of a deal. My theory was this - I'm not going to worry until the Koreans start to worry. As long as their going about their business and nobody's hoarding food, things will be okay.

[Taro Toporific]

yeah, I hope colin sends a tomahawk cruise missile right up Kim's patootie.

I'm suprised the Gov Blinky Ishihara doesn't condemn and exercise the right of immanent domain on the unused auto plants in the Hino district of Tokyo to produce WWII era V1 buzzbombs with modern J-electronics by the tens of thousands a day.

Establish a Ten-thousand-for-One Policy for Lil' Kim's missiles---now there's a "populist" platform for Gov Blinky.

[cstaylor]

Make them "crow-guided" baka bombs and I'll vote for it.

[Taro Toporific]

[Steve Bildermann]

And from the book:
"Bat Bomb" by Jack Couffer, 1992. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0- 292-70790-
"It was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific - All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan's major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings common throughout Japan. When their cities were reduced to ashes, the Japanese would surely capitulate..."

Leave it to me. Kim will never know what hit him.

[DJEB]

yeah, I hope colin sends a tomahawk cruise missile right up Kim's patootie.

Actually, I was implying that I hoped Powell might respond in a rational manner.

[American Oyaji]

Colin Powell is pretty levelheaded.

But if the hawks in washington have their way, he'll have egg-fu-young on his face.....

[Taro Toporific]

Actually I'm not too worried about going back. My parents were always worried about Mini Kim...

Youngdoktong, Youngdoktong, Youngdoktong ... I just looooove the way that rolls off the tongue.


Concern over new N Korea test site
July 2 2003 1:54AM GMT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- United States surveillance satellites have identified a North Korean site, in an area called Youngdoktong, that "may or may not" be a testing facility for the development of a nuclear weapon small enough to be put atop a missile, sources tell CNN