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2006-06-27 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea may have fuel for 13 nuclear weapons-study

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Posted by john 2006-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 North Korea is controlled by China - they have no sovereign manifest destiny, nuclearized or not, save to die or be destroyed first before any Chinese do. Thusly, it is useless for the Norkies to have indigenous nukes save to use as PC asymmetric nuclear defense on or near their own soil against any US-Western invasion force. Is why the WOT may ironically be NK's last chance to break China's hold before China begins to mil exert itself for Asian-Pacific hegemony/empire - as long as China controls Pyongyang, it'll likely be Norkies = Koreans whom will die first before Chicoms do.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-27 00:45|| 2006-06-27 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Instead of Radical Islamist-style self-suicide attacks, it'll be the Chicoms whom will blow the Norkies up from afar into radioactive kimchee-reenies.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-27 00:47|| 2006-06-27 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 There was a recent post with pictures of North Korea.
There were very few cars (unsurprisingly) and also very few bicycles (which is odd).

The reason? North Korea didn't make bicycles. They recently opened a bicycle factory though, with technology transfer from China.
So one should soon see bicycles on North Korean roads.

Think about that for a moment. This is a country that did not have the technology for bicycle manufacturing, which (like Pakistan) cannot make a high speed metal lathe, or a tractor.

But thay can make storable liquid fuel engines for the Taepodong? This is Chinese technology, transfered lock, stock and barrel.

Posted by john 2006-06-27 06:38|| 2006-06-27 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 If NKor actually had the ability to test a small nuke they probably would have done so.

I suspect there may be something wrong with their bombmaking or maybe with their ability to store, handle and fabicate the Plutonium. The Chinese may not have sent the NKors their premium equipment.

Posted by mhw 2006-06-27 08:46|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 You have to assume any missile and atom bomb tech that NKor, Pakistan and Iran have are shared among them. Pakistan is known to use second generation Chinese bomb designs atop NKor supplied missiles. The same designs that Khaddafy turned over to us.

Posted by ed 2006-06-27 08:53|| 2006-06-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

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