News North Korea has NUKES

No time for news man.

eh I guess your right but over 80% of the time when Im on here, Im usually at our store when I have nothing better to do lol. Other than that I always pop in every few hours to see if anyone is selling anything lol.

I follow the news...Pretty scary stuff. I can definitely see this starting major problems. I bet Japan and S. Korea are shaking in their boots...

yah... and to think that Iran is allies with N.Korea... that means Iran can stop with their nucklear R&D and just copy N.Korea's papers and hope the teacher (UN) dont catch them cheating....

really is... like the politics guys said... Iran was buying time... Now all of the pieces of the puzzle comes together... Iran was probably covering up so N.Korea can go on with its R&D...

Finally something I can understand...

that was a good example.... never thought of it that way.... and i do agree that we will do everything NOT to use Nukes....

I just heard about it this morning...haven't had the time to truely formulate a worded opinion.

haha....

...and N korea says its for "a possible invasion by the U.S."

why in God's beautiful green Earth would we want to invade N Korea???

Yeah I saw this last night. It's pretty real sh*t, but its not the first time we've survived something like this. Who ever said Japan and S. Korea are shaking, I don't know about that. Japans new PM is building up their military as we speak. He says he wants to make their military a competitive force (just in case because according to their constitution they can't have a military for 'offensive' purposes) and well S. Korea doesn't have to be worried because an offensive nuclear strike by N. Korea probably wont ever happen plus they have powerful allies.

ill still go with not using those things... but that makes you think.... why do R&D if not going to use it....

ill answer my own question... maybe these things can be used in another application probably generating electricity or something... i dont know....

Hans Hans Hans your breakin my bawwws

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so I was at the gym and read on the screen that N Korea had tested underground explosives.... and that they believe it was a couple of tons of TNT and not Nuclear explosives..... can somebody clear this up for me?....I'm just catching bits and pieces..

N. Korea says it did, but I think China said they were full of sh*t. I can't remember because I read the story on CNN really late last night and was more than half asleep.

Initial South Korean Ministry of Defence and National Intelligence Service reports indicated that a 3.58-3.7-magnitude blast was detected emanating from a North Korean nuclear test at 10.36 am local time (01:36 GMT). Subsequent reports from the US Geological Survey (USGS) place the magnitude of the tremor at 4.2 on the Richter scale. The difference in the reports is due to the fact that the USGS assessment, being somewhat later, was able to incorporate a larger number of sensor reports in its preparation.
The USGS data identifies the time and location of the blast as 9 October at 01:35:27 (GMT) and centred at 41.311—N, 129.114—E at a depth 0-1 km. This places the site approximately 42 km northwest of Kilchu, in the province of North Hamgyong, on the remote slopes of Mant'ap-san Mountain. This coincides with reports that first appeared during 2005 of suspicious tunnelling and construction activities in the area. Subsequent reports during the past month indicate that the North Koreans had excavated a 700 m-long horizontal tunnel under Mant'ap-san.
Although details are tentative, initial and unconfirmed South Korean reports indicate that the test was a fission device with a yield of .55 kT. By comparison the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima yielded approximately 12.5 kT. The figure of .55 kT, however, seems too low given the 4.2 register on the Richter scale. This could suggest - depending upon the geological make-up of the test site - a yield of 2-12 kT. If, however, the lower yield is correct, it would suggest that the test had been a "pre- or post-detonation" event (ie a failure), as it had been anticipated that North Korea's first nuclear test would have a significantly higher yield.
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So yeah, something happened. A 4.2 earthquake is pretty good sized.