Updates: North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test

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A South Korean watches news about a possible nuclear test conducted by North Korea on a TV at Seoul train station on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

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Feb. 12, 6:30 a.m. — North Korea has responded to the global condemnation to its nuclear test by threatening “second and third measures of greater intensity” if the U.S. maintains its hostility, according to the AP.

Feb. 12, 6:00 a.m. — President Barack Obama called the test a “highly provocative act” that “undermines regional stability,” USA Today reports. The White House released the statement early Tuesday, noting that North Korea’s nuclear program constitutes “a threat to U.S. national security.” Read the full text, here.

Feb. 12, 5:11 a.m. — NATO says North Korean nuclear test is a grave threat to the world, Reuters reports.

“This irresponsible act, along with the December missile launch, poses a grave threat to international and regional peace, security and stability,” the North Atlantic Council, made up of NATO ambassadors, said.

Feb. 12, 4:35 a.m. — Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe released a statement on North Korea’s nuclear test.

…This nuclear test by North Korea is totally unacceptable, as it constitutes a grave threat to Japan’s security, represents a grave challenge to the international disarmament and non-proliferation regime centered on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) , and seriously undermines the peace and security of Northeast Asia as well as the international community when taken together with its enhancement of its ballistic missile capability which could serve as the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction. This nuclear test is a clear violation of relevant UNSCRs [United Nations Security Council Resolutions].

Read the full text, here.

Feb. 12, 4:17 a.m. — Iran calls for destruction of all nuclear weapons, reports Agence France-Presse.

Feb. 12, 3:55 a.m. — South Korean president-elect Park Geun-hye says her administration will not tolerate a nuclear-armed North, notes Agence France-Presse .

“North Korea’s nuclear test is a grave threat to the Korean Peninsula and international peace, hampers inter-Korean trust-building and undermines efforts for peace,” Park says.

Feb. 12, 3:33 a.m. — China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it strongly opposes North Korea’s nuclear test, Reuters reports.

“It is China’s firm stance to realize non-nuclearization for the Korean peninsula and prevent nuclear proliferation and maintain peace and stability in northeast Asia.”

Feb. 12, 2:05 a.m. — The Korean Central News Agency reports that North Korea succeeded in its third underground nuclear test.

“The test was carried out as part of practical measures of counteraction to defend the country’s security and sovereignty in the face of the ferocious hostile act of the U.S. which wantonly violated the DPRK’s legitimate right to launch satellite for peaceful purposes.”

The announcement was also made on North Korean TV:

Feb. 12, 1:58 a.m. — President Obama says North Korea nuclear test is “highly provocative act,” Reuters reports.

Feb. 12, 1:53 a.m. — Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General condemns North Korea’s nuclear test.

Feb. 12, 00:57 a.m. — North Korea claims ‘successful’ third nuclear test.

Feb. 12, 00:49 a.m. — South Korean president-elect Park Geun-hye condemns reported North Korea nuclear test. 

Feb 12, 00:40 a.m. — South Korea has now confirmed that North Korea conducted a nuclear test

Feb. 12, 00:26 a.m. — Japan may consider further sanctions on North Korea, Reuters reports.

“I have ordered that we consider every possible way to address this issue, including our own sanctions, while cooperating with other countries,” Abe told reporters after a meeting of Japan’s security council.” —Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Feb. 12, 00:15 a.m. — “If confirmed as a nuclear test, this act would constitute a clear threat to international peace and security, and challenges efforts made to strengthen global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, in particular by ending nuclear testing,” Tibor Tóth, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, tells the Associated Press. Full story, here.

Feb. 12, 00:05 a.m. — Our colleagues at CNN provide some background on underground nuclear testing:

Tests are typically conducted in vertical shafts, according to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBTO). Holes are cut 1 to 3 meters wide and up to a kilometer deep. The atomic devices are assembled on site and placed in the hole, usually accompanied by lead-protected diagnostic canister that contains sensors to record the explosion. The tunnel is then filled with layers of pea gravel, sand and other materials to prevent radioactive material from being released into the atmosphere.

During a test, the explosion energy is released in less than a millionth of a second, according to CTBTO. The temperature will reach about a million degrees within a few microseconds, and shockwaves from the blast, depending on the size, can be detected by seismographs around the planet.

Read the full story, here.

Feb. 11 11:38, p.m. —  South Korea has called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, reports Reuters

Feb. 11, 11:19 p.m. — Citing a South Korean defense official, Reuters reports that the seismic activity could be from a nuclear blast

Feb. 11, 11:10 p.m.

Feb. 11, 10:54 p.m. —  An analyst in Seoul tells the Associated Press a nuclear detonation was a “high possibility.”

Feb. 11, 10:46 p.m — United States Geological Service pinpoints the location of seismic activity in North Korea

Feb. 11, 10:30 p.m — U.S. monitoring agency says that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake has been detected in North Korea, reports the Associated Press.

—With reporting from Kristene Quan, Charlie Campbell, Yue Wang and Glen Levy
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SatishChandra
SatishChandra

FEBRUARY 10, 2013:  Through the Afzal Guru hanging, the Congress Party is preparing for Narendra Modi as the next prime minister through CIA-mandated early elections followed by nuclear tests that will eliminate surprise and forestall the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washington, New York and RAW without which India will remain enslaved as I said on August 22, 2012 in JoinIndiaWarOfIndependenceDOTblogspotDOTcom :

"I have saved India's nuclear forces from falling for having India's nuclear warheads tested in Russian or French high energy labs (I wrote that the Physics of what happens in a nuclear explosion cannot adequately be replicated in a high energy lab; laboratory models of missiles and jet aircraft may not have this deficiency but laboratory models of nuclear weapons do, because of which there is no substitute for explosive tests), from sabotage of the warheads by microwave signals from U.S. satellites, from falling for the explosive tests of new designs without first destroying New Delhi, Washington and New York with existing warheads even if their actual yield is a fraction of the design yields because any new explosive tests at this point will eliminate surprise and prompt the U.S. to take steps to forestall the simultaneous destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York on which India's victory depends -- see paragraphs dated August 10, 2012 below. CIA and RAW are full of tricks and India's nuclear forces will keep falling for them unless they trigger the warheads without further delay." India's nuclear forces must not fall for this and must carry out the steps I have outlined from January 31 '13 to February 6 '13, included in the following comment I posted on news stories:-

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The hangings of both Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru were murders because the 2008 Mumbai killings were sponsored by the CIA and India's RAW participated in it along with Pakistan's ISI and RAW sponsored the Parliament attack: WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom


Narendra Modi is CIA-RAW-sponsored; details upon request. I have shown that Indira, Rajiv and Vajpayee were CIA-sponsored and Nehru and M. K. Gandhi were lifelong British agents. India is ruled by the CIA through RAW.


(Jan. 31, 2013) India's nuclear forces were a big fat zero until I persuaded them to emplace India's nuclear warheads in U.S. cities. They are still a big fat zero having failed so far to have triggered the warheads. India's Dasyu population is profoundly hostile to the king of the Aryas -- myself, who is profoundly different from India's Dasyu population even in his looks -- and committed to everlasting slavery to whites whom they helped kill over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857 and have been helping in crimes against me for the past 36 years. Unless India's nuclear forces stop behaving like India's Dasyu population -- such as RAW and the head of DRDO who rules out building any missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States and is not worried that the satellite navigation the SLBM he just tested uses can be switched off by the Americans any time and that RAW provides the Americans with information on digital circuitry in India's weapons that can be used to disable them by microwave signals from satellites -- and trigger the warheads that are emplaced and destroy Washington, New York and RAW without further delay with an EXPLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed with warheads already emplaced in them if there is any retaliation, they will share the fate of India's Dasyu population. On January 5, 2004 I wrote about Indians "It is a thankless task to try to break their chains but I feel I should try". On  October 19, 2012 I wrote "India's media, government and citizenry at large are willing participants in CIA-RAW's crimes against me and against India and deserve to be killed in their billions". India's nuclear forces can save themselves and India by steadfastly refusing to behave like India's Dasyu population. (Feb. 4, 2013) India's nuclear forces can bring the king of the Aryas back to India and suppress the Dasyu hordes that constitute India's government, media and citizenry at large participating in the Americans' suppression of him. (Feb. 5, 2013) The task is not to suppress the Dasyu hordes but the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States which requires the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washington, New York and RAW as a first stage. By saying that India's nuclear forces must not lose the element of surprise on which India's victory depends, I mean the destruction of Washington, New York and RAW should be sudden, with no forewarning as to whether it will be tomorrow or the day after or next week, etc. and it should be done before the Americans do anything, such as a nuclear first strike on India or by conventional means, to forestall it. By "sudden" I also mean that the destruction of Washington and New York should be completed in the first blow and should not be gradual or in stages. If only one twenty kiloton warhead has been emplaced in each of these cities -- Washington and New York -- fine, just explode these two warheads with the EXPLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation; if more than one nuclear warheads have been emplaced in each of these two cities, all warheads should be exploded in the first blow, with the EXLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation. This is all that is needed to ensure India's victory. India has this opportunity right now. If the United States shows any sign of retaliating or takes any retaliatory step, the destruction of the additional cities in which warheads have been emplaced -- whether these additional cities are just two in number or a dozen or more -- should be done immediately and simultaneously in the second blow, exploding all the warheads emplaced in all of these additional cities. India's Dasyu hordes easily submitted to rule by the British and they will submit to rule by Satish Chandra after the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States. I have also said above that they deserve to be killed in their billions. What to do with India's Dasyu hordes can be decided later. The main task is the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States. (Feb. 6, 2013) Nothing is more urgent than the destruction of RAW and it has to be done simultaneously with that of Washington and New York. One nuclear warhead targeting RAW headquarters and one targeting the South Block and North Block area still seems a good solution. India's army and air force are a continuation of those under the British whose loyalties are to the white countries. I have said I do not need India's conventional forces to defend India; they are liabilities, not assets. If the destruction of the South Block - North Block area does not keep them quiet, additional warheads can be targeted at the Army and Air Headquarters, etc. IndiasTraitorGovtAndMediaDOTblogspotDOTcom


Satish Chandra

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9:58am


meddevguy
meddevguy

Congrat Kim Jong Who Cares on your achievement! While your captive population are scrambling for food, the cousins and other relatives of , the country that is really a Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to your south has become the biggest builder of many complex consumer electronics and cars in the world, with the population living large.

How about if South Korea gets tired of your childish playing with matches and offers every family in a North free of your ridiculousness, a Hyundai, a big screen Samsung TV and a Galaxy S4 phone, and (wait it gets better) a job with a future in factories and engineering firms close to their homes.

WilliamBarnes
WilliamBarnes

The world must not attack North Korea. If they do, they will be giving just reason to the North for their future (re)actions, which will certainly not be welcomed. Deploy the Zionists. The Israeli military will shortly 'dismantle' the danger piece by piece - and get on Iran's nerves at the same time.

iamhe
iamhe

Mutual Nuclear Deterrence -MND- is also known as Civil Deterrence, Civilized Deterrence, Civilizing Deterrence.


MND makes both venues unsafe for war.


A few Nukes can deter many nukes.


MND leads to fewer Nukes in the world, voluntary arms reductions, voluntary disarmament, smaller militaries, less war spending..


The right of a Nation State to have defensive deterrent weapons must be recognized, respected, and preserved.


MND is not good for nations, that seek to be the world's dominant military force.


MND is bad for war profiteers.


No nation wants or needs nuclear weapons except to deter belligerent sociopathic governments from attacking.


MND is not MAD


MND is good and the truth.


MAD is bad and a lie.


A few nukes can deter the entire US military.


What Nation dares risk a high speed nuclear weapon coming at one of their cities.


What nation dares cause a nuclear weapon to denote in the biosphere?


A nuclear detonation in the biosphere is an attack on all humanity, all life, and on the human genome..


Any government that does anything to cause a nuclear detonation in the biosphere is an enemy of the biosphere, and an enemy of the human genome.


Mutual Nuclear Deterrence, Civil Deterrence, works and works well.


Civil Deterrence has powerful enemies with ulterior motive$.

SatishChandra
SatishChandra

FEBRUARY 10, 2013:  Through the Afzal Guru hanging, the Congress Party is preparing for Narendra Modi as the next prime minister through CIA-mandated early elections followed by nuclear tests that will eliminate surprise and forestall the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washington, New York and RAW without which India will remain enslaved as I said on August 22, 2012 in JoinIndiaWarOfIndependenceDOTblogspotDOTcom :

"I have saved India's nuclear forces from falling for having India's nuclear warheads tested in Russian or French high energy labs (I wrote that the Physics of what happens in a nuclear explosion cannot adequately be replicated in a high energy lab; laboratory models of missiles and jet aircraft may not have this deficiency but laboratory models of nuclear weapons do, because of which there is no substitute for explosive tests), from sabotage of the warheads by microwave signals from U.S. satellites, from falling for the explosive tests of new designs without first destroying New Delhi, Washington and New York with existing warheads even if their actual yield is a fraction of the design yields because any new explosive tests at this point will eliminate surprise and prompt the U.S. to take steps to forestall the simultaneous destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York on which India's victory depends -- see paragraphs dated August 10, 2012 below. CIA and RAW are full of tricks and India's nuclear forces will keep falling for them unless they trigger the warheads without further delay." India's nuclear forces must not fall for this and must carry out the steps I have outlined from January 31 '13 to February 6 '13, included in the following comment I posted on news stories:-

--------START OF COMMENT--------

The hangings of both Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru were murders because the 2008 Mumbai killings were sponsored by the CIA and India's RAW participated in it along with Pakistan's ISI and RAW sponsored the Parliament attack: WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom


Narendra Modi is CIA-RAW-sponsored; details upon request. I have shown that Indira, Rajiv and Vajpayee were CIA-sponsored and Nehru and M. K. Gandhi were lifelong British agents. India is ruled by the CIA through RAW.


(Jan. 31, 2013) India's nuclear forces were a big fat zero until I persuaded them to emplace India's nuclear warheads in U.S. cities. They are still a big fat zero having failed so far to have triggered the warheads. India's Dasyu population is profoundly hostile to the king of the Aryas -- myself, who is profoundly different from India's Dasyu population even in his looks -- and committed to everlasting slavery to whites whom they helped kill over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857 and have been helping in crimes against me for the past 36 years. Unless India's nuclear forces stop behaving like India's Dasyu population -- such as RAW and the head of DRDO who rules out building any missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States and is not worried that the satellite navigation the SLBM he just tested uses can be switched off by the Americans any time and that RAW provides the Americans with information on digital circuitry in India's weapons that can be used to disable them by microwave signals from satellites -- and trigger the warheads that are emplaced and destroy Washington, New York and RAW without further delay with an EXPLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed with warheads already emplaced in them if there is any retaliation, they will share the fate of India's Dasyu population. On January 5, 2004 I wrote about Indians "It is a thankless task to try to break their chains but I feel I should try". On  October 19, 2012 I wrote "India's media, government and citizenry at large are willing participants in CIA-RAW's crimes against me and against India and deserve to be killed in their billions". India's nuclear forces can save themselves and India by steadfastly refusing to behave like India's Dasyu population. (Feb. 4, 2013) India's nuclear forces can bring the king of the Aryas back to India and suppress the Dasyu hordes that constitute India's government, media and citizenry at large participating in the Americans' suppression of him. (Feb. 5, 2013) The task is not to suppress the Dasyu hordes but the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States which requires the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washington, New York and RAW as a first stage. By saying that India's nuclear forces must not lose the element of surprise on which India's victory depends, I mean the destruction of Washington, New York and RAW should be sudden, with no forewarning as to whether it will be tomorrow or the day after or next week, etc. and it should be done before the Americans do anything, such as a nuclear first strike on India or by conventional means, to forestall it. By "sudden" I also mean that the destruction of Washington and New York should be completed in the first blow and should not be gradual or in stages. If only one twenty kiloton warhead has been emplaced in each of these cities -- Washington and New York -- fine, just explode these two warheads with the EXPLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation; if more than one nuclear warheads have been emplaced in each of these two cities, all warheads should be exploded in the first blow, with the EXLICIT warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation. This is all that is needed to ensure India's victory. India has this opportunity right now. If the United States shows any sign of retaliating or takes any retaliatory step, the destruction of the additional cities in which warheads have been emplaced -- whether these additional cities are just two in number or a dozen or more -- should be done immediately and simultaneously in the second blow, exploding all the warheads emplaced in all of these additional cities. India's Dasyu hordes easily submitted to rule by the British and they will submit to rule by Satish Chandra after the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States. I have also said above that they deserve to be killed in their billions. What to do with India's Dasyu hordes can be decided later. The main task is the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States. (Feb. 6, 2013) Nothing is more urgent than the destruction of RAW and it has to be done simultaneously with that of Washington and New York. One nuclear warhead targeting RAW headquarters and one targeting the South Block and North Block area still seems a good solution. India's army and air force are a continuation of those under the British whose loyalties are to the white countries. I have said I do not need India's conventional forces to defend India; they are liabilities, not assets. If the destruction of the South Block - North Block area does not keep them quiet, additional warheads can be targeted at the Army and Air Headquarters, etc. IndiasTraitorGovtAndMediaDOTblogspotDOTcom


Satish Chandra

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