N Korea says it has enough bombs to defend against US

[dArKeR]

South Korea's leader yesterday hoped to forge unity with President George W. Bush in Washington on how to secure North Korea's commitment to nuclear disarmament, as Japan fretted that the North's latest boasts may indicate advances in its nuclear weapons program.
Based on the North's bold claims this week, Japan said it believed the communist nation's nuclear weapons programs were "considerably advanced." However, the Japanese Defense Agency's administrative deputy director, Takemasa Moriya, acknowledged that Tokyo's assessment relied on the North's recent actions and announcements, not hard evidence.

US officials expressed optimism earlier this week after meetings with North Korean diplomats in New York that long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks would resume. But the North did not give any date for its return to the six-nation negotiations -- which also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea -- and has reverted to its usual bombast in recent days. Yesterday, the North's main state-run newspaper repeated Pyongyang's demands that Washington drop its "hostile" policies before it will return to the arms talks.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/11/2003258848

[lenidog]

1. Or enough to accidentally blow themselves up

Did anyone ever really figure out what that huge explosion was a few months ago in North Korea?

[dArKeR]

2. My sixth sense tells me it was a Bush ordered assassination attempt on Kim

His train was passing on this track at those very moments. Since so many innocent civilians were murdered, wouldn't this be a terrorist act?

[lenidog]

4. That wasn't the one I was talking about

It was a few month ago and it was a gigantic explosion in North Korea at first the thought that the North Koreans had actually tested a nuclear weapon.

[dArKeR]

7. Oh. Here's the other one.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/photoalbum/1083083527.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. many of us speculated it was a nuke

later statements have convinced me it was indeed an open air explosion, a Hiroshima sized device... nothing larger than that, and ... hiding the evidence, aka the plume, the chinese and the russians would not say much, japan will not panic its population and by the time it reaches canada and the US could be anything...

Oh and earthquake signatures, many goverments wuodl not want to confirm it, for N. Korea, thankee.. something about panics.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Soeul is with artillary range of NK.

Any military confrontation would rain a firery hell on Soeul.

[dArKeR]

6. I think we can see what all the greatest equipment, highest technology,

best trained soldiers... has done in Iraq. I think it's safe to say that Seoul would be shelled.

[daleo]

5. Nuclear disarmament talks with the U.S.

Those won't get far, as no U.S. government would ever give up their own nuclear arms, and unilateral disarmament isn't too likely.

[cliss]

8. I'm surprised nothing major has happened by now.

It must be the supreme restraint of other nations, since it sure ain't comin from Washington. Fools