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shawn703

(2,702 posts)
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 08:29 PM Apr 2012

New photo shows work at NKorea nuclear test site

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- New satellite imagery appears to show a train of mining carts and other preparations under way at North Korea's nuclear test site but no indication of when a detonation might take place.

Early this month, South Korean intelligence reported digging of a new tunnel at the Punggye-ri site, which it took as a sign that North Korea was covertly preparing for a third nuclear test.

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies provided The Associated Press on Friday with its analysis of a sequence of photos of the site obtained from a private satellite operator and taken between March 8 and April 18.

The analysis estimates that 8,000 cubic meters (282,500 cubic feet) of rubble have been excavated at the site, where the communist country conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NKOREA_NUCLEAR_TEST_SITE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-27-19-13-54

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New photo shows work at NKorea nuclear test site (Original Post) shawn703 Apr 2012 OP
They are going Meiko Apr 2012 #1
Well no shit dballance Apr 2012 #2
"I believe we could have dropped those bombs on uninhabited places " trusty elf Apr 2012 #3
I thought Meiko Apr 2012 #4
 

Meiko

(1,076 posts)
1. They are going
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 08:47 PM
Apr 2012

to mess around and blow themselves to hell and back...stop messing with the nukes already.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
2. Well no shit
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 08:53 PM
Apr 2012

Given our rhetoric about countries like Iran it really is not a surprise other countries are pursuing a nuclear agenda.

And by the way who appointed the US as the arbiter of all that is right in the world?

Given the fact we practically wiped out the Native Americans so we could take over their lands and resources and we are the only country that has actually dropped nuclear weapons on another country I'm a little shocked we think we have the moral high ground. I believe we could have dropped those bombs on uninhabited places and just demonstrated to Japan the power of the weapons without killing millions.

trusty elf

(7,394 posts)
3. "I believe we could have dropped those bombs on uninhabited places "
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 04:52 AM
Apr 2012

I've always wondered why they didn't just invite some Japanese ambassador to Nevada to view the first test.

The threat of dropping it might have been enough.






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