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[I-am-me]

News just in...north korea's nuke test was just a hoax. Who would you believe?

[gang ah jee]

Faking having nuclear weapons in this manner must set a new standard in how crazy a country can get.

But is this true? Or is this report of a hoax a hoax?

[cwemory]

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=68240

[Bibbitybop]

Cite your source. That's not what I'm reading on the news.

One source of many: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/13/D8KO2H7G4.html

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

U.S.: Test points to N. Korea nuke blast

[JeonjuMichael]

Check out CNN .. or any other reputable news source, for that matter. It WAS a nuke... a small one, but nuclear nonetheless... Atmospheric sampling has confirmed radiation in the area of the test site.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/14/nkorea.test.sample/index.html

[Captain Corea]

So far only from US sources though.

[mindmetoo]

The US was watching the site with satellites. The explosion was supposed to be 1/2 kiloton or 500 tons of TNT. Now you'd have to truck a lot of conventional explosives in to make that kind of explosion. The US argues when the site is being watched, it's kind of hard to sneak in such a large amount of explosives.

[Junior]

[ChopChaeJoe]

A half-kiloton nuke is a pretty wimpy nuke. Wouldn't even take out a square mile.