Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
The Mail and Guardian writes, “Word of the still inconclusive findings comes as Washington leads efforts in New York for a United Nations resolution punishing North Korea.”
The Observer writes, “There are still doubts whether the test was real. Japan said yesterday it had yet to detect any radiation consistent with a nuclear blast. South Korea and China said that it could take weeks before a definitive judgement could be made.”
The United Nations resolution that unconfirmed ambassador John Bolton rushed through calls the nuclear explosion “a clear threat to international security”.
So, riddle me this:
If a nuclear bomb is exploded and no one can tell whether it really took place, how is that a clear threat to international security?
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October 14th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Hmm. What if they waited until an earthquake of the right sort to get a seismic reading and then said, yep, that was our nuclear test?
October 16th, 2006 at 11:53 am
If I recall correctly, they contacted foreign powers shortly BEFORE the test. Then the seismic readings were picked up. It couldn’t have been an earthquake. It was either an atomic blast or a huge stockpile of high explosive buried in a mountain (would you put an elaborate fraud like that past the North Koreans?).
October 16th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Oh, OK. That makes sense.
Plus, additional air samples now seem to confirm that the nuke test was real.
October 16th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Yeah, but the point is - the UN passed the resolution BEFORE the nuclear explosion was confirmed. That’s kind of backwards, isn’t it?