North Korea at it again
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/wo...test.html?_r=0

5.1 Earthquake detected at previous Nuclear test site.

NK have themselves claimed to have detonated a Hydrogen bomb. Nobody but NK can substantiate this but I've already seen evidence that this is indeed a Nuclear test using previous readings to distinguish earthquake from nuke.

http://imgur.com/a/1diJr Top: 2013 test, bottom being this possible test

Must be the season for foreign aid again :rolleyes:

Although keep in mind North Korea successfully launched a ballistic missile in December.

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Perfect time to get rid of our independent nuclear deterrent then.

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Except it isn't independent...

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China is the key: Do they really want an H-Bomb armed load of nutters on their southern flank?

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They're not H-bomb armed in that sense. I'd say being armed is having the capability to actually use the weapon for an attack on anything other than themselves. Unless North Korea literally wheel the device to the South Korean border, they pose next to no threat and are still significantly far more threatening with their conventional missiles and artillery. It's not small enough, it's not powerful enough to be classed as a warhead or to be used on a missile. If anything it's proving they're inept and desperate. Sure it's a threat in the future. Right now however at the turn of the year screams attention. Sanctions and typically foreign aid.

Once again before the silly media spin it. North Korea can not launch a Nuclear Strike. They are so far away from a conventional Nuclear warhead.

China is indeed a key element though especially with the reveal that they're distancing themselves as much as possible despite what the media says.

There is no outcome where China wins though.

On top of all of that. In comparison with the 2013 readings, It's very likely this was a failed test. That or their 'H-Bomb' has made no progress on previous Nuclear detonations.

Threat of a Nuclear attack isn't the worry though. Them selling it to others is something else though.

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Or fly in a drone?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35760797

Does size matter?

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Well it does to Trump, who will probably nuke N Korea.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35793980

I wonder if they just ran away...

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Without the proper siding of China and Russia they usually get, things are getting more and more desperate. Given the international response too I'd write off that actually being a warhead. If China wasn't in such a poor position and didn't face the threat of having the US and South Korea basically sharing a border with them then these shenanigans would've died a long time ago. China doesn't have the means to support the sheer amount of civilians that would be left from removing the fools from North Korea.

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I think PRK Submarine got a bit to close to the exercise area and that a US Dallas class sub put it out of its misery.

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Definitely matters to the donald

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/03/po...s-marco-rubio/

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Regardless of colour, class, creed, beliefs or political status, a submariner is a brother. RIP to those believed missing.

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They aint no brother of mine, remember they sank a South Korean vessel not so long ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32013750

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They're brothers to other submariners, could've been anyone of them down there but for the grace of God and all that