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North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons

steelvadi writes "North Korea has now admitted to possessing nuclear weapons. Government officials there claimed that they are needed as defense from an increasingly hostile attitude from Washington. It was also stated that N. Korea will not be reentering negotiations on disarmament for the foreseeable future. "

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  1. Israeli has nuclear weapons since long time ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Israeli has nuclear weapons since long time ago, so why other nation like north korea can't have its nuclear weapon?

    oh yeah~ because poor north korea never able to own any mass media or entertainment company in american...

    sigh... poverty is really a sin.

  2. Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, good thing we raided big bad Iraq, while sweet lil' N. Korea was doing all of this.

    Bullshit. You don't understand that contrary to what most people say Bush is NOT stupid. See this post of mine.

  3. Re:Not Surprising by cybersaga · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And we shouldn't worry that the US has more nuclear bombs than any other country?
    We shouldn't worry that Bush commands them?

    Maybe the US's hipocracy is why North Korea stopped talking.

  4. All I have to say about Kim Jong by ambienceman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...is that he's pimp and a gangsta. Look at them glasses he dons. Look at his demeanor. "Bitch, if you don't step down, I'm gonna have to backhand slap you with some nukes. Fuck the peace talks! Y'all ain't representing the hood right"

  5. Re:Condoleeza Rice by magarity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.

    This seems staggerly out of touch; are you aware that the nuclear weapons in question were built from technology the Clinton administration donated in exchange for not developing nuclear weapons? You really think the North Korean government is a paragon of trustworthiness and the USA with its donations of foodstuffs to the starving NK population is at fault?

  6. Re:Condoleeza Rice by will_die · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lets ask again, maybe this time I will get an answer.

    What has Bush been lying about?

  7. Re:I think "admits" is probably the wrong word. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It'd be real easy to resolve. Let the fuckers nuke each other. The U.S. can take out Asia, the Krazy Koreans can take out the western seaboard. If they can hit Texas, an awful lot of problems would be resolved.

    Let's see those filty mexicans cross 100 miles of toxic wasteland to get to the good part of the U.S.

    Oh wait, they already have to.

  8. Re:Same song, different day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    why would 'leftists' blame bush for this? just wanna get a little retarded comment in? ur gay, right?????

  9. Fuck the dead soldiers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The dead US soldiers should have shot at their own president, who's the real bad guy.

    The only nation with HUGE ammounts of WMD's

    If USA can have WMD's, so can anyone else.

  10. Re:Thank Goodness... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sounds like you're an idiot to me. The US can obliterate every other country in the world, maybe you can explain how it has used that in negotiations.

    Oh wait, you can't because they don't.
    OWNED.

  11. Re:consequence of us foreign policy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "These two countries are run by BAD PEOPLE. "

    What a fucking piece of garbage you are.

    I pray you die today.

  12. Moderation Abuse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Modding this down to -1 shows clearly the intolerance of slashbots of people who have different opinions. The above comment is a reasonable position that many reason people have, yet the mods consider it "trolling".

    You guys are really pathetic.

  13. Re:Thank Goodness... by operagost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure you all would have voted for the invasion on North Korea ... before you voted against it.

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  14. Re:Korean War ('scuse, "police action") by BJZQ8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly. At the time, the Clinton Administration waved the "Peace in Our Time" treaty like a bunch of Neville Chamberlains...Now what do we get? Instead of a war on our terms, against a non-nuclear enemy, we'll get a war on their terms, against a nuclear-and-willing-to-use-it enemy. To quote from the Wiki on Chamberlain... "The theory was that dictatorships arose where peoples had grievances, and that by removing the source of these grievances, the dictatorship would become less aggressive." We all know that worked great with Hitler, and it worked so wonderful with NK too. So now what do we do? Stand back and wait for the next "Great Patriotic War" when they get a huge stockpile built, or cut our losses and fight now?

  15. Utter Hypocrisy? by DesScorp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    " Yeah, good thing we raided big bad Iraq, while sweet lil' N. Korea was doing all of this."

    Somehow I doubt that if we had proposed raiding sweet lil' N. Korea with military force, you'd have supported it. Somehow, I get the feeling you would have said "We're attacking an innocent sovereign nation for no good reason!"

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  16. Hypocritical US by markh1967 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can anyone tell me why it's ok for the US to increase funding for bunker busting nuclear weapons but it isn't ok for other countries to research similar technologies.

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  17. Re:Geopolitics for dummies on Slashdot... by Rollie+Hawk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's what I'm waiting for.

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  18. Where's their proof... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    North Korea claims to have nuclear weapons. But where's their proof? When and where were their tests done? North Korea is bluffing in the wrong poker game, just as Iraq was bluffing.

    If the US believed that North Korea had nukes then a possible response would be to nuke their facilities and then claim that it was an accident caused by North Korea's ineptitude. Who would know the difference?

    I don't believe North Korea has nukes, but I'd do the above merely to get rid of the bastards and send Iran a message.

  19. Re:Oh yeah, blame Bush by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are ingorant on this matter and you post shows you to be so.

  20. Slashdot by northcat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why is this story on Slashdot? Because this is big news in USA? Outside USA this is not as big as The South-east Asian Tsunami or the USA World Trade Center crashes.

  21. Re:Uh oh... by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *blink* I beg your pardon. Evidently you're such a war-hawk that you feel it's self-evident why everyone should be?

    Please. I believe you're suffering from testosterone poisoning if you honestly feel that war is a rational (or admirable) activity. Kindly take some Androcur; I hear it's quite nice at drastically reducing one's testosterone levels.

  22. Re:Thank Goodness... by hostyle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Weird. I can only count one.

    USA

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  23. Re:Korean War ('scuse, "police action") by Goose3254 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Heck no North Korea isn't going to attack the United States...They'll attack SOUTH Korea and then get our pinko leftists to scream "It's a civil war!!!" to keep us out of it. The tenuous stability of the region will be thrown into chaos. Any agression by us, even defensive posturing, will be denounced by China in order to "justify" them getting involved. Why? China is nearly broke. A good financial "push" and their house of cards falls down. Communism runs counter to nature...when there is no reward for excellence, there is no reason to strive for it. If everyone "gets according to thier need" no one will truly strive to "give according to thier ability."

    To answer a post above this one...sure the North Koreans got MOST of thier technology from China and the old USSR, but without the computers Clinton and Albright lifted the ban on, they were severely limited in thier ability to hit the targets. Heck even the Chinese weren't crazy enough to give that pyschopath Kim Jung Il the ability to really accurately use 'nukes.

  24. Re:Korean War ('scuse, "police action") by blighter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    So in your estimation the Clinton policy was a success because he allowed NK to save face by accepting aid in exchange for placing cameras.

    But they continued working on their nuclear weapons program in secret. So basically Clinton was paying for nothing.

    I don't think that Bush's policy is all that great either, it's a situation that doesn't have a good solution.

    But I definitely don't believe that paying off a madman to pretend not to develop nuclear weapons is a successful policy.

  25. Slashdot - bastion of Anti-American rhetoric? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The vast majority of posts here *always* blame the U.S. for every problem going on in the world.

    Brutal dictators that murder their own people? Blame us. Uneducated, bloodthirsty cowards that think they will get a gaggle of virgins to defile by killing American schoolchildren? Blame us. Crooked ass U.N. officials exploiting oil for food? Blame us. Half-witted little Charlie running around making nuclear bomb threats in order to extort more American tax payer money? Blame us.

    The comments here are rude and arrogant, often totally lacking facts, and come accross as being bitter, petty, smirky little scripted propaganda blurbs that the poster was brainwashed to regurgitate on demand by some leftist college professor.

    "Hate America, Love the GPL" seems to be the only motto here. Those two things go together it would seem. I would venture a guess that the majority of posters here are white American males. Maybe they should start acting a bit more rational and patriotic - and a bit less like homo pinko commie politcally correct appeaser pacifist traitors.

    Despite your borderline psychosis fear of "Big Brother", you are all indeed a bunch of pre-programmed slaves and don't even know it. If I were merely a brick in the wall like you are, I hope I would at least have enough self-respect and nads left to at least successfully hang myself.

  26. We should show them "Hostility".. by TheCeltic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah.. the peace loving N. Korean govt. If they want, we can show them just how hostile we can be (toward unstable, immoral, communist countries)

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  27. Re:Korean War ('scuse, "police action") by ifwm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Congratulations, ass, you just did exactly what we all expected. Instead of addressing the issue, you clouded it with the same anti-US crap we've heard over and over.

    I asked you politely not to do that, so why would you make it your entire post? Are you illiterate? Stupid? There has to be a logical reason.