North Korea says it has conducted third nuke test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -North Korea successfully detonated a miniaturized nuclear device at a northeastern test site Tuesday, state media said, defying U.N. Security Council orders to shut down atomic activity or face more sanctions and international isolation.
The underground explosion could take North Korea a big step closer to its goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a long-range missile that could threaten the United States.
Official state media said the test was conducted in a safe manner and is aimed at coping with "outrageous" U.S. hostility that "violently" undermines the North's peaceful, sovereign rights to launch satellites. North Korea faced sanctions after a December launch of a rocket the U.N. and Washington called a cover for a banned missile test.
The North said it used a "lighter, miniaturized atomic bomb" that still has more explosive force than past tests.
The United States Geological Survey said earlier Tuesday that it had detected a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in North Korea.
The nuclear test is North Korea's first since leader Kim Jong Un took power in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, and marks a bold statement for the young leader as he unveils his domestic and foreign policy for a country long estranged from the West.
South Korea's U.N. Mission informed reporters early Tuesday that he U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on North Korea's nuclear test on Tuesday morning. South Korea joined the Security Council in January for a 2-year term and currently holds the council's rotating presidency.
South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan is in New York to preside over a council meeting scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT) on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
Experts say regular tests are needed to perfect North Korea's goal of building nuclear warheads small enough to be placed on long-range missiles. This atomic test - North Korea's third since 2006 - is expected to take Pyongyang closer to possessing nuclear-tipped missiles designed to strike the United States.
The underground explosion could take North Korea a big step closer to its goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a long-range missile that could threaten the United States.
Official state media said the test was conducted in a safe manner and is aimed at coping with "outrageous" U.S. hostility that "violently" undermines the North's peaceful, sovereign rights to launch satellites. North Korea faced sanctions after a December launch of a rocket the U.N. and Washington called a cover for a banned missile test.
The North said it used a "lighter, miniaturized atomic bomb" that still has more explosive force than past tests.
The United States Geological Survey said earlier Tuesday that it had detected a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in North Korea.
The nuclear test is North Korea's first since leader Kim Jong Un took power in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, and marks a bold statement for the young leader as he unveils his domestic and foreign policy for a country long estranged from the West.
South Korea's U.N. Mission informed reporters early Tuesday that he U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on North Korea's nuclear test on Tuesday morning. South Korea joined the Security Council in January for a 2-year term and currently holds the council's rotating presidency.
South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan is in New York to preside over a council meeting scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT) on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
Experts say regular tests are needed to perfect North Korea's goal of building nuclear warheads small enough to be placed on long-range missiles. This atomic test - North Korea's third since 2006 - is expected to take Pyongyang closer to possessing nuclear-tipped missiles designed to strike the United States.
The UN is a bigger bunch of attention grabbing crybabies than this Communist turd. Wah ... don't do it! We mean it this time, don't do it!
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Next time, show them what a flight of F-15's can do to their super special nuke facility.
Looks like my best buddy is playing with firecrackers again. I told him to not put them into trash cans and mail boxes...did he listen to me? Of course not. Oh well. His wife is still super-hot, though. Yowza!
I'm jealous.
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The people in South Korea have the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground...
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all i can say is B-2 bomber and when asked say who not us
Might be time to bomb his a&& back to the stone age.
It's amazing how a country the size of Western Washington can have so much power. This fat f--- needs to have his face smeared in his own sh-- before he's forced to eat it on a Donald Trump live tv special.
oh yeah, I forgot......God Bless America! lol
I'm just wondering when we are going to see some sustained sunshine around here! But, regarding this article.....Sheeseh!!!...between the local zombies and this lunatic, I think most of us need to just settle down, protect yourselves and your loved ones and give an extra hug to someone you love. Can't wait for further developments.
North Korea sets off a Nuke - Komo's TOP story an hour later boasts of Graham's Serial Door Knocker...
It's a gambit: Iran develops nuclear technology for "peaceful" purposes and North Korea openly develops it for military purposes. The game is meant to test our answers to each.
Just tell Kim Jong Un that his penis is NOT as small as he thinks it is, tell him it's HUGE, and maybe he'll learn to relax, take up golf or fishing and forget about all this crap?
 @SgtPepperSpray He DID take up golfing, but after 18 holes-in-one, he thought it was too boring.
 @RN1  @SgtPepperSpray That was his father, the late Kim Jong Il, who scored 18 holes-in-one.
He starves his own people. Keeps them in the dark . And probably orders them to march against their will. I am more worried about a dirty bomb, "The sum of all fears" style, than anything.Â
 @Steve Giovanis I agree, i feel for the people suffering there under a communist regime. Its always the people that get the crap end of the stick in that government structure.
Hopefully the next test fails and nukes them.
He wants attention, just ignore him. Â Every time people quake in their boots,or get butt-sore over this little dweeb, he gets the attention he craves. Â I'd rather he waste his fissionable material on underground tests, than for him to hold some back and save it for another purpose.
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He is posturing to hold onto power in his own country. Â In the end, he knows he has too much to lose if he does anything heinous with his military.
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Taking pre-emptive action would be the same to them as Pearl Harbor was to us.
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 @K. Coleman I wish what you say could be, but his war isn't with the US. The north has wanted to erase the border to "reunite" the "Sisters" into one country, under his rule. The south would have seconds to respond to a launch from the north.
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Ahmadinejad is padding this punks research, and padding his [Kim] pocket.
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Also, he's in cahoots [for money to do the development and manufacture] with Ahmadinejad for completion of successful bomb, no matter to whether it will reach another continent. Imagine Kim and Ahmadinejad both having small nukes to shoot[at there 'enemies'].
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There are way to many people that will die out of a couple of pissant's perverted ambitions. Â
 @komoispropaganda So what do you suggest? Â
This little pissant and his buddy Ahmadinejad [another pissant] are bound and determined to start a new cold war, or an atomic nightmare.
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Start training the next Seal Team for a double mission.
You can see they really listen to the UN. They do not care who says what...you are wasting your breath. Prepare for it and get a defense system in place.
I know how we can stop them?More Sanctions, yeah that will do it.Â
Hmm, smaller bomb. Perhaps, they are almost out of nuke. They want the world's attention, so, let's ignore them completely. No more free food, medicine, money, etc. Isolate them completely.
 @STK Punishing the people will never punish the government.
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I say let's use one or two of our fancy drones and take out the senior military leadership. Don't target Kim Un instead kill his generals, leave him with no one to command his "mighty" army and watch how quickly China invades and removes our problems from NK.
@Ihateupeople Any conflict with the North will result in millions of civilians dead at the minimum. Isolation is the best option right now.
A 5.0 earthquake is the equivalent of just under .5 kilotons. It barely even compares to the first nuke the US detonated in 1945, which was 20 kilotons. Nothing to see here.
 @Cooter_Brown I'm curious what a worthless 20 kiloton bomb would do in downtown Seattle? I'm sure there would be nothing to see.Â
Also, a fun little website you can play around with.
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http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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 @Cooter_Brown Thats a really interesting website. Thanks!
 @snow surfer The test NK did was nowhere near 20 kilotons, so it's irrelevant.
I wonder which whackjob is going to launch a nuke first. This one or Ahmadinijad? What's amazing is we invade Iraq under the premise of W.M.D.'s when none were present, yet THESE crazies are hell bent on getting, and USING them and all our leaders do is sit there biting their nails. Why isn't Obama using his beloved drones on THESE mentally deficient targets? Oh yea, poor Pakistani families are safer and can't fight back. I forgot.
Scary. Â I'd compare him to Nero or Caligula, except he's probably not as well-educated and more of a lunatic.
I checked the USGS website. With a depth of .6 miles (1KM)Â it's obviously a nuclear test.
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 @BoeingSparky That, or Lil' Kim ate three boxes of spicy hot wings again and got terrible explosive gas while touring his underground lair.
gee, i should have ended this fat obnoxious kid last time i was in pyongyang...
 @CIAassassin You really should have, you know.