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2009-05-26 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Look... they were going to do it.... but doing it on Memorial Day... lets them thumb their noses at the USA...

Posted by 3dc 2009-05-26 00:24|| 2009-05-26 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Why Did Norks Test Nuclear Weapon Now?

First: They enlisted Iran's assistance to identify the design flaw and Venezuela's assistance to provide raw materials.

Second: They decided how long it would take to fix.

Third: They staged an end to the game of footsies they were playing with all the members of the six-party talks by blaming it on some made up crap about whatever political event happened to be convenient, even if it was unrelated in the rest of the world's eyes.

Fourth: As a bonus, their earliest available test date fell within a few days of Memorial Day, so they figured what the heck.

Posted by gorb 2009-05-26 01:27|| 2009-05-26 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Just to be dicks?

Hey, it's kind of a tradition by now, isn't it?

Posted by mojo 2009-05-26 10:53|| 2009-05-26 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting quote from the Belmont club, by twobyfour :

12. twobyfour:

A client test for Iran?

29. twobyfour:

Just expanding on my terse comment

1. In the past there were clear indications of co-op between NKor and Iran in the nukes area.

2. How would Iran test their nuke design without arousing a suspicion? They would set aside a shipload of cash and send it to NKor with their design for testing. Everyone would be pointing at NKor (as if they care, cold cash is a cool thing to have despite presses running 24/7), Iran has the wuznt us plausible deniability and an element of surprise if they deploy before experts would even get a whiff of their readiness.

Lets call it a hunch.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-05-26 13:11|| 2009-05-26 13:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't sell a product that may be a royal lemon. Have to take it out on the road from the show room to show the customers, it works. It does. Now we'll see the customer interest and purchases increase. Tree bark doesn't have that kind of demand. What else do they have that will generate that kind of income?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-26 19:41|| 2009-05-26 19:41|| Front Page Top

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