Remilia Scarlet Posted September 12, 2004 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion It would seem a huge explosion occured in northern North Korea, sending a large mushroom cloud into the air. This occured on an important anniversary of the communist regime. 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted September 12, 2004 Oh god, this can't possibly be good. I hope this story is either a hoax or a great exaggeration of what really happened. 0 Share this post Link to post
gatewatcher Posted September 12, 2004 S1lent said:UH OH! SPAGHETTI O's! What were you saying about third grade comments again? 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted September 12, 2004 gatewatcher said:What were you saying about third grade comments again? Third Grade comments in response to an opinion, not as in, "Oh shit! The Koreans have nukes." 0 Share this post Link to post
S1lent Posted September 12, 2004 gatewatcher said:What were you saying about third grade comments again? It's a joke Gatewatcher....geez 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkhaven Posted September 12, 2004 S1lent said:It's a joke Gatewatcher....geez Just give him time, he might still be really mad with Black Hand, because of this thread. 0 Share this post Link to post
SYS Posted September 12, 2004 Methinks they got some nukes. Or that was the end of one big hotbox. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted September 12, 2004 You don't need a nuclear bomb to create a mushroom cloud. A large amount of conventional explosives will do as well. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted September 12, 2004 A US official said it was unlikely that it was a nuke. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted September 12, 2004 A British Member of Parliament visiting there says it's a nuclear test. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted September 12, 2004 If you take seismographic (sp?) evidence from seismometers in the area, a large spike would be more indicative of a nuclear blast, whereas many smaller spikes would be indicative of conventional ordinance. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted September 12, 2004 fodders said:A British Member of Parliament visiting there says it's a nuclear test. Pfft. What do the Brithis know. The folowed us into war in Iraq, how smrt can they be. 0 Share this post Link to post
Alientank Posted September 12, 2004 It might be an explosion done by NK to make us think they have a nuke even though it was just a lot of explosives going off, maybe to make the US fear them now or something? 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted September 12, 2004 Apparently the explosion occured extremely near to the North Korea/Chinese border, making it extremely unlikely that it was a nuclear test (they wouldn't want to risk upsetting their only remaining ally). 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted September 12, 2004 Scuba Steve said:Pfft. What do the Brithis know. The folowed us into war in Iraq, how smrt can they be. They know how to spell British for one thing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted September 12, 2004 And 'smart'. So, about this explosion thing... exactly what kind of explosion was this here? Some sort of devastating thing where lots of people died, or something that people see miles away and go "huh, how about that"? 0 Share this post Link to post
m0l0t0v Posted September 12, 2004 ...a South Korean news agency reported Sunday......Secretary of State Colin Powell said...Lets wait until we get some reliable information shall we... 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted September 12, 2004 m0l0t0v said:Lets wait until we get some reliable information shall we... A news article said:John Bellini, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, said his organisation had not detected an explosion large enough to be considered nuclear. "If it was a nuclear bomb, that would have been detected by everybody in the world," he said. A blast involving a conventional bomb would have been too small to detect, he said.How about that? 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkhaven Posted September 12, 2004 Captain Red said:Oh... I hate North Korea... Give 'em a break. They brought us a form of Martial Arts, and in return we run them so far below the poverty line they get to eat boiled grass. 0 Share this post Link to post
m0l0t0v Posted September 12, 2004 Captain Red said: Oh... I hate North Korea... Lets not forget that fifthy years ago the US committed genocide and killed one fifth of the North Korea population. North Korea has been boycotted eversince, leading to even more deaths. And now Bush is threatening to invade... Can you really blame North Korea for fearing/ hating the US? 0 Share this post Link to post
[D3HoE]Makaveli Posted September 12, 2004 Rice is yum. SHIBA-NO!!!!!!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted September 12, 2004 Ok, do you think we could conduct simulations to figure out what other type of explosion could produce a mushroom cloud like that? 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted September 12, 2004 m0l0t0v said:And now Bush is threatening to invade... Yay, 99 Red Ballons! 0 Share this post Link to post
SYS Posted September 12, 2004 Nuke or not, it'd make a great excuse to invade. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted September 12, 2004 Excuse? We need excuses now? Considering the genocide and boycott, we could just say we need to invade to "finish the job". That's why we're in Iraq, isn't it? Or we could just scribble their name into that "Axis of Evil" and hope nobody notices. Oh, wait... how did that get there...? 0 Share this post Link to post
Dco16 Posted September 12, 2004 Condoleeza Rice said that there was nothing to suggest that it was nuclear related. But, seeing as how Condoleeza Rice is stunningly incompetent... 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted September 12, 2004 Numbermind said:Excuse? We need excuses now? Considering the genocide and boycott, we could just say we need to invade to "finish the job". That's why we're in Iraq, isn't it? Or we could just scribble their name into that "Axis of Evil" and hope nobody notices. Oh, wait... how did that get there...? It is already in, Bush named Iraq-Iran-North Korea as the axis of evil in his state of the union address Jan 2002. If I remember correctly other states were miffed at not being included :P Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool." 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 12, 2004 Thats the second huge ass myserious explosion in 6 months in North Korea. Bizzaro. 0 Share this post Link to post