North Korea has nukes

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:37 am

Korea Announces It Has Nuclear Weapons
34 minutes ago World - AP Asia

By SANG-HUN CHOE, Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks any time soon, saying it needs the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.

The communist state's pronouncement dramatically raised the stakes in the two-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush (news - web sites), who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation talks.

"We ... have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North)," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

The claim could not be independently verified. North Korea expelled the last U.N. nuclear monitors in late 2002 and has never tested a nuclear bomb, although international officials have long suspected it has one or two nuclear bombs and enough fuel for several more.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Washington would consult allies before responding.

"I think we just have to first look at the statement and then we need to talk with our allies," Rice told Dutch RTL television while on a trip through Europe.

"The North Koreans have no reason to believe that anyone wants to attack them," she added. "They have been told they can have multilateral security assurances if they will make the important decision to give up their nuclear weapons program. So there is really no reason for this, but we will examine where we go next."

Previously, North Korea had reportedly told U.S. negotiators in private talks that it had nuclear weapons and might test one of them. The North's U.N. envoy said last year that the country had "weaponized" plutonium from its pool of 8,000 nuclear spent fuel rods. Those rods contained enough plutonium for several bombs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ea_nuclear

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:00 am

"North Korea". Two words I am sure we will increasingly here in the coming days, months and years.

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:10 am

Roody wrote:"North Korea". Two words I am sure we will increasingly here in the coming days, months and years.

Sadly, a repeat performance is on it's way. Hopefully it won't ruffle China's feathers too much. Don't want to wake the sleeping dragon.

Croc.

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:17 am

north korea scares the **** outta me.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:09 am

Meggie wrote:north korea scares the **** outta me.

I don't believe they have a delivery system to launch one to the continental U.S

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:19 am

What worries me is the fallout if someone were to launch something as such.

Im worried about Iran launching one at France, and we'll be feeling the effects here. It just doesnt stop at the boundaries.

Looks like that dude was right, the world will end by 2008...

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:27 am

Izzo wrote:I don't believe they have a delivery system to launch one to the continental U.S

I believe they do, and it can hit as far away from them as Seattle...

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:35 am

Indy wrote:I believe they do, and it can hit as far away from them as Seattle...

Yeah, I'm not sure either way . I just thought I remembered something from the last year or two that they were testing a missile with a range of only 900 miles... far short of Seattle or even Alaska.

here I found this in a quick search ..still reading

http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_news ... ID=7594282

RicRogue · Post by **RicRogue** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:17 am

Indy wrote:I believe they do, and it can hit as far away from them as Seattle...

Ehhh...That's ok...I live in Texas.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:30 am

RicRogue wrote:Ehhh...That's ok...I live in Texas.

Yeah, but my sister lives in Seattle

RicRogue · Post by **RicRogue** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:00 pm

Indy wrote:Yeah, but my sister lives in Seattle

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:16 pm

Ok so now Nkorea has weapons of mass destruction better get mr hostile to send troops asap!... err how much oil does nkorea produce?... maybe we should just let them have their WMD.

just get rid of Bush, I cant beleive that americans relected that jackass

DaddyLongLeg · Post by **DaddyLongLeg** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:22 pm

Figures, were all going to die form a NUCULER bomb (see Jims thread)

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:44 pm

OMG! I thought they were going to use the plans for energy only!!! SHOCK!!!1111

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:11 pm

I need to form and agreement with the Koreans. That they let me know when and where they are going to hit us with some Nukes. That way I can be right under the sons bitches.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:20 pm

Croc wrote:Sadly, a repeat performance is on it's way. Hopefully it won't ruffle China's feathers too much. Don't want to wake the sleeping dragon.

Croc.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:42 pm

US wouldn't invade North Korea, Iran on the otherhand.........................

sito · Post by **sito** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:52 pm

"It is not known to have tested an atomic bomb, although international officials have long suspected it has one or two nuclear weapons."

IMO North Korea hasn't any nukes. It's all just to get a hand out. They may have the raw fuel for it, but so does any other country with nuclear powerplants.

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:05 pm

Izzo wrote:I don't believe they have a delivery system to launch one to the continental U.S

maybe not, but the army usually doesnt wait for them to hit us before we attack them.

THATS what im scared of. we dont fight wars on our own soil.. im scared of fighting a war with them over there..

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:06 pm

It's not North Korea that I am worried much about as of right now, But Iran a couple days ago, they said they had scientists making weapons and placing it where no missiles or any other weapons can hit.

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:07 pm

And I don't think there is going to be a war in the future that would make it to America, if anything the world will end by a barrage of idiot nuke missles.

And by the way what ever happend to good old bows and arrows and swords...

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:08 pm

Indy wrote:Yeah, but my sister lives in Seattle

She can come live with me!

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:15 pm

I mean come on just read about Iran HERE

" But in his speech Thursday, Khatami was adamant that Iran won't scrap its nuclear program. Iranian scientists worked hard to develop nuclear technology on their own and will not stop due to "the illegitimate demands of others," he said. "

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:20 pm

Untill they try and extort money out of us by saying GIVE US MONEY OR WE'LL NUKE YOU! I'm not to concerned about us invading them. They shoot a few nukes over here and their whole country will be a smoldering wasteland. Then anybody else who has nukes is going to start lobing them around. Before we know it we'll all be dead.

vc_wannabe · Post by **vc_wannabe** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:29 pm

If we go after N Korea the air campainge is to last for 5 days. All targest have been targeted since the cold car. So as long as it stays a conventional war. It shouldnt be too bad as far as wars go.

The_Lurker · Post by **The_Lurker** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:45 pm

vc_wannabe wrote:If we go after N Korea the air campainge is to last for 5 days. All targest have been targeted since the cold car. So as long as it stays a conventional war. It shouldnt be too bad as far as wars go.

you forget about China. the last time we reached the 39th parallel China moved south to meet us.

Rouse · Post by **Rouse** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:00 pm

vc_wannabe wrote:If we go after N Korea the air campainge is to last for 5 days. All targest have been targeted since the cold car. So as long as it stays a conventional war. It shouldnt be too bad as far as wars go.

What a comment!!!

Go Team America!!!

What Bush needs to do is keep his freaking pie hole closed before he kills us all.

"In recent weeks, hopes had risen that North Korea might return to the six-nation talks, especially after Bush refrained from any direct criticism of North Korea when he started his second term last month. During his first term, Bush said North Korea was part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and prewar Iraq"

The_Lurker · Post by **The_Lurker** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:07 pm

ahhh, yes. it's all Bushies fault. Lil Kim has nothing to do with it at all!

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:13 pm

The_Lurker wrote:ahhh, yes. it's all Bushies fault. Lil Kim has nothing to do with it at all!

Haven't you heard the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side.

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:23 pm

Rouse wrote: Go Team America!!!

FUnny movie!!

I just hope we have a better missle defense then we let people believe....They are starting to show that we can blow them out of the skies. SOmething of that magnatude would have to be classified for years so i would be willing to bet we can target ALOT of stuff before it ever go across the ocean...

If we hit them i HOPE to god we do it fast and HARD, too fast for china to react, and hard enough to not make them want too....

AMERICA!! F YEAH!!!

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:25 pm

JBKM wrote:FUnny movie!!

I just hope we have a better missle defense then we let people believe....They are starting to show that we can blow them out of the skies. SOmething of that magnatude would have to be classified for years so i would be willing to bet we can target ALOT of stuff before it ever go across the ocean...

If we hit them i HOPE to god we do it fast and HARD, too fast for china to react, and hard enough to not make them want too....

AMERICA!! F YEAH!!!

Yeah well we also thought that we had pretty good defense of air space over the pentagon and over New York City, and we found out the hard way that we didn't.

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:28 pm

ScottE wrote:Yeah well we also thought that we had pretty good defense of air space over the pentagon and over New York City, and we found out the hard way that we didn't.

Thats a little different though. We'll know a nuke is launched before it even leaves N. Korea's air space much less enters ours.

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:31 pm

64bit wrote:Thats a little different though. We'll know a nuke is launched before it even leaves N. Korea's air space much less enters ours.

Maybe, maybe not. Probably won't come in on a missile anyways. Probably on a container ship or something.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:36 pm

MadDoctor wrote:She can come live with me!

Lol

sito · Post by **sito** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:45 pm

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:51 pm

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:22 pm

Lmao!

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:33 pm

I love the Chinese. They make good food.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:36 pm

ScottE wrote:I love the Chinese. They make good food.

Isn't it funny that they don't eat the same food that we buy from them?

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:40 pm

Prey521 wrote:Isn't it funny that they don't eat the same food that we buy from them?

Ya, lots of fish and stuff. Not General Tao's Chicken or Sweet and Sour Pork or any of that crap.

I'm not really all that concerned about the Chinese as I am with all the Arabs in Cleveland that seem to own every Fast Food joint and Convenient Mart, here we are worried about nukes when the bastards are going to give everybody a heart attack.