OBAMA: It's 3 A.M. and the phone rings in the White House -- North Korea has just exploded a nuclear weapon after testing a long-range missile!
Earliest Report: The South Korean government is reporting that they have detected an Earthquake consistent with an underground nuclear test in North Korea. Is this a natural Earthquake? A fake-out with massive amounts of conventional explosives?
A NUCLEAR TEST WAS CONFIRMED BY THE NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT!!
"North Korea staged a 'successful' underground nuclear test on Monday, the communist state's official media said. South Korea's presidential office said has earlier said that North Korea had appeared to have conducted a nuclear weapons test." "The [South Korean] government received a report on the nuclear test having been conducted, presidential spokesman Lee Dong-Kwan told a briefing. He said President Lee Myung-Bak called an emergency National Security Council meeting for Monday afternoon." <Source: AFP>
Are the North Koreans only doing what they promised?
"North Korea raised the stakes yesterday in the dispute over its nuclear weapons' programs, threatening to conduct a second test unless the United Nations apologizes for condemning its rocket launch. If no apology was forthcoming, it would take what it called additional defensive measures." " 'The measures will include nuclear tests and test-firings of intercontinental ballistic missiles,' the foreign ministry said." <Source: April 30, 2009: AFP>
Nuclear Blackmail? Questions abound!
Is this the major test of the Obama Administration predicted by Joseph Biden? Will President Barack Obama respond directly to North Korea? Contact the Chinese Government for assistance? Will Obama fall back on his "need to talk to our enemies" gambit? Is this test especially troublesome considering the North Korea's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in April? Is there a linkage between the missile test conducted by Iran -- coincidently said to be carrying the same configuration of warhead as the Korean missile -- and this test? We know that the North Koreans will do anything to attain hard currency, might they simply sell a complete weapon to Iran. And, heaven forbid, this was a seller's demonstration of the hardware.
It’s in Obama’s court!
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Considering that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in China and Hillary Clinton is roaming, who is likely to be making policy?
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Is this a method to sell the legitimacy of the Kim Jong Il regime to the starving people and prepare them for the possible succession to a leader who is known to have serious health problems?
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Is this aimed at the South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, who is thought to be a hard-liner when it comes to the pattern of appeasment that was shown toward North Korea by the former President, Roh Moo-Hyun, who recently comitted suicide.
“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”
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