Hey Kim -- was it worth it?
Reports from both China and the USA say that there was no radioactivity released in last weeks 0.5 Kiloton nuclear test.
The effects of the blast could have been reduced by buffering it in a large cavity but for any of the underground tests done in the history of nuclear weapons, radioactivity has always been vented. Minute amounts yes but still, released.
Looks like a dud to me. And for this dud, Kim Jong Il is getting a royal can of whoop-ass unloaded onto his head.
From
MyWay/AP:
U.N. Approves Sanctions on North Korea
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea including ship searches for banned weapons, calling Pyongyang's claimed nuclear test "a clear threat to international peace and security."
North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, and its U.N. ambassador walked out of the council chamber after accusing its members of a "gangster-like" action which neglects the nuclear threat posed by the United States.
The U.S.-sponsored resolution demands that the reclusive communist nation abandon its nuclear weapons program, and orders all countries to prevent North Korea from importing or exporting any material for weapons of mass destruction or ballistic missiles. It orders nations to freeze assets of people or businesses connected to these programs, and ban the individuals from traveling.
The resolution also calls on all countries to inspect cargo leaving and arriving in North Korea to prevent any illegal trafficking in unconventional weapons or ballistic missiles. The final draft was softened from language authorizing searches, but was still unacceptable to China - the North's closest ally and largest trading partner - which said it would not carry out any searches.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said North Korea's proclaimed test "poses one of the gravest threats to international peace and security that this council has ever had to confront."
That part about "
calls on all countries to inspect cargo leaving and arriving in North Korea" is going to hurt. North Korea's primary source of cash income is selling weapons to terrorists, drugs and counterfeit US hundreds. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
Posted by DaveH at October 14, 2006 9:50 PM
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