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So North Korea tested a nuke

Now..I'm not a big political guy...but this cannot be a good thing.

North Korea has detonated a nuclear weapon in testing and has declared it a success. Seismic readings from all over the world have confirmed a tremor that confirms the signature of a nuclear weapon. North Korea has successfully tested missiles short and long range.

The question is are they crazy enough to do anything.

Now...I am not old enough to really grasp the tension of the nation during the Cold War and any of the times that the former USSR threatened to lob nukes at us.

But this scares me a little bit. And it should scare a lot of other people out there.

If I were in South Korea...I'd be getting the heck out of that country quickly. They don't even need a missile to get to Seoul with a nuke. The government found a long series of tunnels that stretched underground through the de-militarized zone and into South Korea.

Of course...they have tested missiles capable of carrying a nuclear device. They launched them over Japan. The Japanese don't need any reminders of what that kind of weapon could do.

The Chinese government has been mildly estranged from North Korea, but they'd still take their side. The North Korean govt. at least gave them a 20-minute warning.

Now, everybody wants to know what the U.N. is going to do about this. I'm one of them.

What I really want to know is will a series of sanctions prevent a missile from being launched somewhere?

Posted by Jason Palmer at 11:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)