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North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com)
New submitter ReginaldBryan45 quotes a report from Reuters: North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE) said on Monday that it had seen signs based on satellite imagery that show that the secretive country had re-activated the nuclear fuel production reactor at Yongbyon. The analysis by the IAEA pointed to "resumption of the activities of the five megawatt reactor, the expansion of centrifuge-related facility, [and] reprocessing -- these are some of the examples of the areas [of activity indicated at Yongbyon]." U.S. Intelligence tried to infect the Yongbyon site with a variant of the Stuxnet malware last year but ultimately failed. Experts at the U.S.-Korea Institute at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington predicted last year that the country's nuclear arsenal could grow to as many as 100 bombs within five years, from an estimated 10 to 16. Naturally, this news is a cause for concern as North Korea had four (failed) test launches in the last two months.
Like Iran, North Korea used centrifuges obtained from the Pakistani scientist, A.Q. Khan, who led his own country's nuclear weapons effort.
No body did anything about that then !
NK cyber team will hack the vote so trump does not win as he will crush NK.
Seth Rogen and James Franco when you need them?
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You are welcome on my lawn.
The endless effort to make nuclear bombs will be worth your sacrifices and many deaths.
The world will quake in fear.
Everything in history sets a precedent. As fun as destroying this country sounds, that should not be the defacto way of humanity. Someone needs to come up with a better solution because feature generations will use this as an example. Doing nothing is also not an option even though they are assuredly 98% hype. There's a real crime against humanity going on over there and no one really seems to be able to stop it..
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"NK cyber team will hack the vote so trump does not win as he will crush NK."
But if the cyber team is too successful it will elect Sanders, who will bomb NK in grounds that the plutonium reactors could be used to generate power.
It is both financially and socially/politically more beneficial to have NK there as another demonizable entity, along with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and many others. It is often overlooked how many other places have 'crimes against humanity' going on in them, including the ones closer to home (you deal with your own issues before sanctimoniously judging on others.) But distracting from issues at home is exactly what these places are used for. Propoganda showing how much worse you could have it if you lived elsewhere, even while your domestic government works overtime to subtly benefit from similiar, albeit more subdued tactics.
It seems Trumps policy is to abandon the region and leave South Korea and Japan to worry about the problem. Sounds more like he is happy to let North Korea go on their merry way.
Keep in mind, Hillary isn't a diplomat. She had the Department of State tossed to her as a consolation prize to shut her idiot fans up. She has no negotiation skills, and waltzing into a meeting with the Norks with her usual "Qbey me, you fucking peasants!" attitude would be worse than doing fuck-all.
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The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
There were even rumours spread George Soros would have been a member in the Hitler Youth, which is completely impossible with George Soros being hungarian, and the Hitler Youth being solely for german (and after the Anschluss also austrian) boys -- no exceptions made, especially not for an hungarian jew living in Budapest. Hungary, despite being dominated by Hitler Germany, was still a country on its own, and german civil organisations like the Hitler Youth or Kraft durch Freude didn't have any sub-organisations in Hungary. It's clear that those rumours are put into the world purposely to discredit George Soros, as they are completely unfounded and don't hold up to reality.
What we know about the U.S. intelligence community is that they always get things utterly wrong. They have done so for easily 60 years, since they grossly overestimated the Soviet military threat in size, science, and capacity.
What we know about North Korea is that it loves to make bold boasts about having advanced technologies that turn out to either explode at the launchpad or to be photoshopped cardboard boxes.
Fear level: 3. I'm modestly worried that the U.S. will do something insanely stupid, again, after having been persuaded that someone, somewhere, might have a Weapon of Mass Destruction. (As I recall, the few that were eventually found in Iraq turned out to be long-defunct weapons that the U.S. had supplied.)
On the opposite, NK cybers will hack the vote so that Trump wins ; WW3 is the best exit scenario for NK.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
After he has built that wall and taken care of ISIS... So actually, he will probably wreck his own country before he gets around to them.
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If you can't get a lift vehicle off the ground without problems what good are those bombs?
If I was a North Korean citizen living anywhere around the potential launch sites, seeing how successful their launches are. Seems far more likely these bombs would turn into a local dirty bomb than actually manage to get to whatever target. I would say it's getting close to Stuxnet them, but it seems like NK is doing enough damage to themselves.
Obama has already done a pretty good job at that, much like Cameron did in the UK.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
It seems Trumps policy is to abandon the region and leave South Korea and Japan to worry about the problem. Sounds more like he is happy to let North Korea go on their merry way.
No, his policy seems to be more oriented around getting those parties to pick up more of the tab for using the US military as their muscle. Which seems very reasonable. Obviously we (in the US) have a strong vested interest in not having chaos erupt there (we do tons of trade with Japan and South Korea, as well as their many neighbors), so it's not like we'd just leave. But there's no reason that J&K can't shoulder more of the costs. Much like Europe ought to.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Bombing the crap out of North Korea's infrastructure should take about 6 planes with two bombs each.
Everything else is just barren wasteland.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
This is terrible news! It means that North Korea might actually become a viable, independent state that we cannot contain with economic sanctions and foreign policy arm-twisting.
That means that we might have to (gasp!) actually talk to them and treat them as a legitimate government with the right to sovereignty over their own land.
Has anyone else noticed that our "non-proliferation" programs have done nothing but increased nuclear weapon proliferation?
but trump wants to come in and shit in the bed and then roll around in it. You are talking degrees of bad and Trump is someone that can make Obama look good which is just sad.
You keep telling yourself that.
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breed the Plutonium need for atomic bombs. If Iran had really wanted nuclear weapons we couldn't have stopped them.
And the US will continue to have weak foreign policy.
This is a provocative interesting article, that has little to do with information, technology, computers, AI, web design, graphics, processors, memory, social networking, computer security, network protocols, IP addresses, hacking, writing code, Linux, Windows, OSX....
As with every news article I see, I always ask myself:
1.) Why is this article here.
2.) Who wanted it here.
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In fact, I haven’t formally endorsed him.
Of course, he then does go on to say he supports Trump at this point. Then again, he isn't in charge of the KKK any more either.
To be clear: I don't support Trump, and I think he would be a disaster for America. But let's attack him for what he says and does, not who supports him.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
Well, we all know that power corrupts...
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I see that as a net win, we have more money to spend domestically, and all these countries start footing their own bills.
It worked out so well for the Philippines, they are begging us to protect them from scary China.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Or does a 5MW nuclear reactor sound very very small. Like small enough that it is one of those experimental ones that produce medical isotopes. Also if it is so small, how is is producing enough "material" for 100+ bombs? Reactors are usually measured by the GW. This would be what, a 0.005 GW facility? Makes me a bit skeptical of the estimated claims.
Also with that last statement being that all their attempts of launching missiles end with blowing them up prematurely, it sounds like if even were they to build some warheads, they are likely more a danger to themselves than anyone else...
Whatever the case, this is probably just more posturing for more aid and less sanctions like they do every couple of years. I have a feeling that should they ever become a menace or real danger, they would suddenly find themselves in an overwhelming internal military coup and become a protectorate of China.
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Delusional thinking is not healthy. Seek help, you are the only person who thinks you are winning the argument.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?