Edited title: added “YES they did!” after confirmation from reuters.
Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test
Iran could soon be following Pyongyang’s example.
The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, “North Korea Outwits the United States.” Despite Kim Jong Il’s explicit threats of another nuclear test, U.S. Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth said last week that the Obama administration is “relatively relaxed” and that “there is not a sense of crisis.” They’re certainly smiling in Pyongyang.
In October 2006, North Korea witnessed the incredible diplomatic success it could reap from belligerence. Its first nuclear test brought resumption of the six-party talks, which gave Kim Jong Il cover to further advance his nuclear program.
Now, Kim is poised to succeed again by following precisely the same script. In April, Pyongyang launched a Taepodong-2 missile, and National Security Council official Gary Samore recently confirmed that a second nuclear test is likely on the way. The North is set to try two U.S. reporters for “hostile acts.” The state-controlled newspaper calls America “a rogue and a gangster.” Kim recently expelled international monitors from the Yongbyon nuclear complex. And Pyongyang threatens to “start” enriching uranium — a capacity it procured long ago.
It’s time for the Obama administration to finally put down Kim Jong Il’s script. If not, we better get ready for Iran — and others — to go nuclear.
http://www.dni.gov/announcements/20061016_release.pdf
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20511FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 19-06October 16, 2006
Statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the North Korea Nuclear Test
“Analysis of air samples collected on October 11, 2006 detected radioactive debris which confirms that North Korea conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of P’unggye on October 9, 2006. The explosion yield was less than a kiloton.”
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A P’unggye-ri is located at coordinates 41.1361N, 129.1567E, several miles south of the location of the seismic disturbance at 41.294N, 129.094E reported by USGS below. There is another city by the same name some distance to the north.
However….
We just got an EarthQuake Alert for the Area. A Magnitude 4.7. Did they just test?
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 4.7 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 41.285°N, 129.004°E |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | NORTH KOREA |
| Distances | 70 km (45 miles) NNW of Kimchaek, North Korea 100 km (60 miles) SW of Chongjin, North Korea 185 km (115 miles) SSW of Yanji, Jilin, China 375 km (230 miles) NE of PYONGYANG, North Korea |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 6.5 km (4.0 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | NST= 51, Nph= 51, Dmin=469.6 km, Rmss=0.71 sec, Gp= 72°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7 |
| Source |
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| Event ID | us2009hbaf |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
- Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.
The co ordinates are right.. Maybe this is true.
Actually yes it is memorial Day so yes fitting way to mock.
http://eyeball-series.org/dprk-test/dprk-test.htm
Has great pics of what your talking about
WELL DONE you got it before the rest.
reuters got it now http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE54O08120090525
Well done doomdaily You hit this first and made a good call. I see its only just breaking on TV now.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread466336/pg1
Awesome job DOOMDAILY!
They are threatening ANOTHER test. Making that 3 if they do it.
“NORTH Korea may carry out more nuclear tests unless the United States ends its “intimidation”, a senior official at Pyongyang’s embassy in Moscow has been reported as saying.
The official was quoted by Russia’s the ITAR-TASS news agency that North Korea cannot rule out “the possibility of carrying out new nuclear tests”, adding that this would take place “if the United States and its allies continue their policy of intimidation of North Korea”.”
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25536969-23109,00.html
EDIT: Just added a Video to the post
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Yes it was a late night that night.
We were waiting for the New Moon to maybe start tugging on good ole Mother Earth, especially in areas that have had recent unusual quakes.
So we saw this and staff remembered the last nuke test and put it together.