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kimchi_pizza · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: Next Chernobel

The big concern these days is the possibility of N.K. using nuclear weapons. MY concern is if they really know what the heck they're doing.

Here we have a country with limited resources, experience and probably know-how juggling nuclear weapons and material. I highly doubt they have all the checks and balances that most countries have.

So I'm not worried about them using the weapons on others, but it scares the dickens outta me when I think there is a greater possiblity of a nuclear exposion/fallout in N.K.

I think these surrounding countries should be more worried about that as well as the rest of the world.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

chernobyl

kimchi_pizza · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject:

whatever

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

That's probably the largest concern out of this whole issue. I'm against pre-emptive warfare, but if they had screwed up and let out a lot of radiation, I would've been the first to suggest sending in foreign armies to take control of the situation.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Get yourself some...

so you're ready for...

Troll_Bait · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

Question:

If radiation were to leak out from an underground atomic test,

a) which countries would be affected? (e.g. could it conceivably reach Japan? How about Russia?) and

b) which countries (aside from North Korea itself) would be most affected?
(obviously, the prime candidates are China and South Korea)

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I'm being radiated as I post. Gott sei Dank for potassium iodide.

R-Seoul · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: your place

I saw an interesting episode of 'Horizons' on the BBC earlier this year in which they refuted the claim that chernobyl had contaminated a vast area of land. In fact studies on the human & animal population around chernobyl showed that apart from those people actively involved in the immediate rescue operation (ie sealing the reactor etc.), that cancer levels did not fall outside the norm.
This was also found to be the case in Nagasaki & Hiroshima as well. Those outside a certain radius of the nuclear explosion did not show abnormal radiation-linked illness levels in the following years. They even went so far to say that a certain amount of radiation is in fact beneficial it is just when it reaches a critical point that it can be carcinogenic...

So if the DRPK does screw it up we'll all benefit from the health giving properties of radiation. How long till the Korea Herald picks up on this?

Troll_Bait · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:55 am Post subject:

Well-being radiation! In a few days, at most, they'll be selling bottles of genuine, irradiated water, good for diet, men's "stamina" and well-being.

You read it here first!

Neil · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo

Kimchi prevents radiation posioning. (someone had to say it).

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

DCJames · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

If a few of your friends start losing their hair, you should start worrying.

Troll_Bait · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:53 am Post subject:

re:cursive · Joined: 04 Jan 2006

Thyroid doses of Iodine-131 resulting from the US from atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada test site.

We've all been exposed to this stuff for a long time. I'm personally not from the States but in Australia we've also had similar nuclear tests in the past. The only obvious and noticeable effects due to exposure seem to be very localised.