Hope no dupe, CNN reporting "CIA thinks NK has 2 "small" nukes

[karlschneider]

Well, THAT is a relief. Imagine if they had some BIG ones!
:eyes: :crazy: :grr: :puke:

[xray s]

1. Maybe they mean cuke's?

Here's a big one.

[Maple]

2. What I don't understand

is that North Korea announced to the world that they had nukes at least a year ago.

But every couple of months or so the CIA says they've 'discovered' this and it makes headlines.

Not only is this not news to everyone else...it shouldn't be news to the CIA!!

[arcane1]

5. cuz the admin isn't ready for a NK nuke threat, yet

they have a few more phony McThreats to scare us with first, out in the Money East

[NNN0LHI]

3. Wonder if these are the same 2 nukes that the US said they had in 1989?

Sounds like Junior needs to get peoples mind off of Iraq because its getting too hot for him? Don

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0827/p07s01-woap.html

How serious is North Korea's nuclear threat?

<snip>Does North Korea have the bomb now?

Perhaps. The mystery dates back to 1989, when North Korea shut down its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon for 70 days. During this time, the regime removed some of the plant's fuel rods and extracted plutonium through what's called reprocessing. Plutonium is the key element needed to make the type of bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

The regime claimed it reprocessed rods only once for a tiny amount of plutonium. But tests by outside inspectors showed several rounds of reprocessing.

"That immediately raised suspicions," says Charles Ferguson, scientist-in-residence at the Washington office of the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "Did they separate more than what they were saying?"

Experts can only estimate how much plutonium might have been processed in that month. The consensus among US experts and CIA officials is that it got enough plutonium for one or two bombs.

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[yellowcanine]

4. Is that kind of like being partially pregnant?

Girlfriend to Boyfriend, "The bad news is that I am pregnant. The good news is that it is only a small baby."

[karlschneider]

6. Yeah...like the folks in Chicago were only shot by a SMALL CALIBER gun

:grr: