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WORLD WAR III NEWZ....19.10.6.....North Korea 'days away' from second nuclear test |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2408797,00.html
The Times October 18, 2006
North Korea 'days away' from second nuclear test
By Michael Evans, Defence Editor
NORTH KOREA is paving the way for a second nuclear test within days
amid intelligence reports that the first may have been less than a
complete success.
Aerial photographs showed an unusual pattern of activity that indicated
possible nuclear preparations after Pyongyang denounced UN sanctions
against it as an act of war. The White House said that it would not be
surprised if Kim Jong Il defied world opinion again, particularly
because the atomic explosion last week was relatively weak.
=E2=80=9CThe first test, while nuclear, did have a low yield, and perhaps it
would not be unreasonable to expect that the North Koreans might want
to try something again, to be provocative,=E2=80=9D Tony Snow, President
Bush=E2=80=99s spokesman, said.
For the first test North Korea may have used a sophisticated
plutonium-fuelled device that did not achieve its maximum potential,
Western intelligence sources said.
A close examination of the radioactive isotopes scooped up by the
Constant Phoenix radiation-monitoring aircraft in the region provided
final proof that North Korea had carried out a nuclear test, as it
claimed last week.
Experts have been studying the air samples collected by the Constant
Phoenix on October 11. That was two days after the underground
explosion at a North Korean facility near Punggye, about 60 miles
(95km) south of the border with China.
Based on the radioactive isotopes and the seismograph recordings, which
registered 4.2 on the Richter scale, US and British experts assessed
the device at a yield of less than one kiloton =E2=80=94 1,000 tonnes of TN=
T,
or about 1/20th the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
Intelligence sources said that a kiloton device was =E2=80=9Cpretty small=
=E2=80=9D,
and wondered why North Korea had made such a public pronouncement about
its successful achievement. They said it was likely that the explosion
was smaller than intended. There have been reports that North Korea
warned China before the October 9 test that it was planning a
four-kiloton explosion.
Siegfried Hecker, the former head of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, the atomic weapons research facility, told The New York
Times that North Korea may have had trouble imploding the device
properly. Pyongyang is believed to have enough plutonium for up to ten
bombs.
North Korea maintained its bellicose stance yesterday, describing the
UN sanctions imposed on it for last week=E2=80=99s test as =E2=80=9Ca decla=
ration
of war=E2=80=9D.
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, the
Foreign Ministry said that if anyone used the UN resolution to infringe
on North Korea=E2=80=99s sovereignty =E2=80=9Cit will deal merciless blows =
at him
through strong actions=E2=80=9D. Washington sidestepped such rhetoric. Mr
Snow said that North Korea had not declared war, but a second nuclear
test =E2=80=9Cwould not be a good thing=E2=80=9D. If the North Korean leade=
rs
thought that they would escape unpunished =E2=80=9C they=E2=80=99re going t=
o find
out that they=E2=80=99re wrong=E2=80=9D, he said.
Although Pyongyang=E2=80=99s response was dismissed by the US and South Kor=
ea
as =E2=80=9Cnothing new=E2=80=9D, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said th=
at the
country wanted peace =E2=80=9Cbut is not afraid of war=E2=80=9D.
The sanctions, approved by the UN Security Council on Saturday, include
a ban on the sale of major arms to North Korea and an inspection of all
cargo going in and out of the country.
Christopher Hill, the US Assistant Secretary of State and the chief
American nuclear envoy, maintained that the latest North Korean
statement was =E2=80=9Cnot very helpful=E2=80=9D. He said: =E2=80=9CWe woul=
d all regard a
second test as a belligerent answer on North Korea=E2=80=99s part to the
international community.=E2=80=9D
North Korea, ever defiant, staged a large pro-government rally in
Pyongyang yesterday, just as Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of
State, was embarking on a trip to Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and Moscow. She
plans to discuss the implementation of the United Nations sanctions.
Her biggest challenge will be to persuade China to co-operate.
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| Title: Re: WORLD WAR III NEWZ....19.10.6.....North Korea 'days away' from second nuclear test |
19 Oct 2006 01:06:28 AM |
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On 18 Oct 2006 22:41:13 -0700,
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North Korea 'days away' from second nuclear test
Big whoop! Ho-hum. <<yawwwnnnnnn>>
-- Craig Chilton <xanadu222@mchsi.com>
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