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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."
People claimed Bush was able to stage/provoke 9/11 in just nine months. It's perfectly fair to blame this on Obama, it's all part of the job.
Communism didn't work for several reasons but two of about the biggest ones were:
- constant paranoia about getting sabotaged by outside enemies, which paralyzed progress by destroying mutual trust, on which communism must be built to succeed.
- constantly getting sabotaged by actual outside enemies - CIA funding religious extremists opposing the nation, never-ending propaganda about the paradise of the capitalist life, restrictions in trade of modern technologies, constant threat of war which stole lots of resources for army, which could otherwise be used on making lives better.
Of course there were other factors, but these two were nowhere near the least.
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The he only way countries like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan etc can be sure they wont be invaded is to get nuclear weapons.
It would have been much easier arguing against these countries getting nuclear arms of the west had not invaded countries right and left for no reasons. Stupid decisions brings terrible effects.
I very highly doubt these weapons will ever be used. The only country that has ever used an atombomb so far is the US so i would watch them more closely than North Korea.
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>we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
It hasn't been that easy since John Wayne died.
America took Saddam Hussein out of the game permanently. Instantly peace and stability were returned to the Middle East, Americans are welcomed with open arms every where they go and harmony has been restored to the planet.
Afghanistan? Another robust success. Taking Kim Jong-il out could only build on those triumphs of American foreign policy.
1 in 4 Maine children in struggle with hunger.
This doesn't surprise me a bit. John Bolton predicted this a week ago. "Oh, but they dismantled their nuke program!" Um, sure, the stopped trying to make fissile material because it's probably far cheaper to buy it from the Iranians. And I have no doubt that North Korea traded with Iran for the designs and other essential technology. So in fairly short order we'll have two extremist countries with nukes. WW3 is coming, folks, but keep believing you can talk them out of it.