Korea Nuclear Test Early Monday Morning

Overheal

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/25/north-korea-nuclear-test-reaction.html

Global leaders preparing for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council say a reported nuclear test by North Korea on Monday threatens world peace and international security.

Officials confirmed the Security Council's emergency meeting for 4:30 p.m. ET in New York, following North Korea's announcement that it had successfully completed its second nuclear test since 2006.


UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement on Monday, saying he was "deeply worried" by the reports.


Tokyo will seek a new UN resolution to condemn the test, said Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.


"North Korea's nuclear test poses a grave challenge to nuclear non-proliferation and clearly violates UN Security Council resolutions," he said. "We are not tolerating this at all."


North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported Monday that an underground nuclear test had been successfully conducted.


Russia's Defence Ministry later confirmed that a test occurred about 80 kilometres northwest of the city of Kilchu and estimated its yield at 10 to 20 kilotons, a size comparable to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.


But a final official confirmation could take days, said Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, who added his country would be proceeding on the basis that an underground nuclear explosion had been successful.


The U.S. State Department is still analyzing data from the alleged nuclear test. But the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a seismic event took place at about 9:50 a.m. local time in the northeast area of North Korea that was consistent with a test.The Japan Meteorological Agency also measured the seismic activity at magnitude 5.3. Meanwhile, the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources in Seoul reported seismic activity in Kilju in North Hamgyong Province, the same area where North Korea carried out a nuclear test in October 2006.


Later in the day, North Korea then launched three short-range missiles.
In a written statement, China, the North's closest ally, said it is "resolutely opposed" to the nuclear weapons test and urged North Korea to return to the six-nation process aimed at dismantling its nuclear program.


EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferreo-Waldner was scheduled to meet with leaders in southeast Asia in Hanoi on Monday to discuss the nuclear test.


South Korea called the test a threat to world peace.


"We are seriously concerned about North Korea's second test of a nuclear device," said South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan. "It's a direct threat against the peace and stability in the region as well as the world."
U.S. President Barack Obama said the test is a matter of grave concern to all nations that threatens international security.


"North Korea is directly and reckless challenging the international community," Obama said in a written statement. "North Korea's behaviour increases tensions and undermines stability in northeast Asia."
'Danger to the world'

The test is in "blatant defiance" of international law, and Washington will work with the Security Council and the international community to pressure North Korea to give up on its nuclear ambitions, Obama said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also condemned the test as "erroneous, misguided and a danger to the world."


European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the EU would be joining with the international community to "discuss appropriate measures."
"It's alarming," said Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Bildt. "It's a continuation of the provocative behaviour of the regime in Pyongyang."
Pyongyang has been engaged in years of on-off negotiations, which have been pressing the impoverished state to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for massive aid and an end to the country's pariah status.


North Korea announced in April that it was withdrawing from the six-nation disarmament talks and said it would restore partly disabled nuclear facilities.


Some analysts said Monday's test reflected North Korea's defiance in the face of criticism that it had launched a long-range rocket from a base on the country's northeast coast. North Korea said that was not a missile test, but a satellite launch.


Analysts believe North Korea has enough weaponized plutonium for at least six atomic bombs. However, experts say scientists have not yet mastered the miniaturization needed to mount a nuclear device onto a long-range missile.


"This is a political act more than a military act," said Jim Walsh, an international security expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Walsh said domestic factors related to North Korea's political transition were likely the main factor.

Rented Mule

...and here I thought it was that curry I got on the way home last night.

dlofnep

Thread already in the politics forum on this.

DrumSteve

hans blix wont be happy.

Overheal

dlofnep wrote: »

Thread already in the politics forum on this.

Well feel free to make silly then.

Serious posters go here

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Quazzie

ROR

phasers

Kim Jong Il is obviously ronery and looking for attention

My name is URL

Those damn Mongolians

Snowie

so north korea arnt listening to any one and doing as they please


Oh good

Lord Trollington

i'm from the UN, i condemn this...
Big fu*kin swing.
They'll go and do another one in the morning just to give me the 2 fingers!!!

Noopti

"Korea Tests Missile" is becoming an annual event, like Fathers Day.

I'm just surprised Hallmark haven't come out with a card yet....

Steffano2002

No weapons of mass destruction in Irak, yet, the US invades them... North Korea has nuclear bombs and nobody moves a finger... You have to laugh...

Overheal

Steffano2002 wrote: »

No weapons of mass destruction in Irak, yet, the US invades them... North Korea has nuclear bombs and nobody moves a finger... You have to laugh...

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055573988

iirc they have the backing of china for whatever perverse reason. Going in might not be the wisest idea of the last 50 years.

Dartz

The UN security council has stated that they are very Angry with Kim, and that they have written repeated letters to him telling him that they are very angry with him.

They're all a little confused as to why it hasn't worked yet though....

Baldie

That must have been a blast*

*gets coat and leaves

magick

kim is getting old and frail, he needs to show whos boss

Captain-America

Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
caves.

Diabhal Beag

He's a guy called Kim?

Roadend

Nucuelar, its pronounced nucuelar

Rented Mule

Steffano2002 wrote: »

No weapons of mass destruction in Irak, yet, the US invades them... North Korea has nuclear bombs and nobody moves a finger... You have to laugh...

Here is your big chance to make a difference in the world.

Mr.Lizard

Don't worry! We have nothing to fear until Kim Jong Il releases the giant black panthers on us. :eek:

Naos

Little Shyte wrote: »

He's a guy called Kim?

That's why he's so angry.

Snowie

Little Shyte wrote: »

He's a guy called Kim?

theres lots of men called kim seeing its actuly a male name to start with :cool:

partyatmygaff

F*cking Brian Cowen and Mary Harney f*cking everything up as usual..........








Oh wait.
:pac:

RandolphEsq

*Climbs into his bath and covers the bath with a mattress*

Borneo Fnctn

That Chinese spastic lad in North Korea is a mentalist.

towel401

Little Shyte wrote: »

He's a guy called Kim?

Kim is his surname. I think about 26% of Koreans have this as their surname

Kim is the "O'Sullivan" of Korea

Manic Moran

There's an Irish bar in Seoul called "O' Kim's"

I don't think I'll ever see anything as daft again as loads of short little Korean dudes wearing sparkly green bowler hats saying "Happy St Patrick's Day" on them.

NTM

Snowie

towel401 wrote: »

Kim is his surname. I think about 26% of Koreans have this as their surname

Kim is the "O'Sullivan" of Korea

but that name is not strictly Asian, as its been known as a Scandinavian name to dateing back to the vikings.....

Poccington

AREC BAWRIN!

AlmightyCushion

It's pronounced nucular dummy, the S is silent.

Gummy Panda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hk9vaqWUg

Captain-America

GUISE.

jesusofnaz

Kim Jong Il (the illmatic)’s LiveJournal.

Captain-America

It's funny because it's true.

Capt'n Midnight

Has anyone send a strongly worded letter to the Times yet ?

Capt'n Midnight

Steffano2002 wrote: »

No weapons of mass destruction in Irak, yet, the US invades them... North Korea has nuclear bombs and nobody moves a finger... You have to laugh...

Ain't no oil in NK
and it gets very cold in winter

and the US/UN got fought to a standstill last time, back in the days when away goals didnt' count.

Captain-America

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Has anyone send a strongly worded letter to the Times yet ?

I'll do it when the Time is right.

Capt'n Midnight

Quazzie wrote: »

ROR

ROK

dsmythy

Dartz wrote: »

The UN security council has stated that they are very Angry with Kim, and that they have written repeated letters to him telling him that they are very angry with him.

They're all a little confused as to why it hasn't worked yet though....

The UN has been useless for years now.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Ain't no oil in NK
and it gets very cold in winter

and the US/UN got fought to a standstill last time, back in the days when away goals didnt' count.

A one million strong brainwashed patriotic army is kind of worrying too. Especially one with a leader when he realises the end is near will use nukes.