{"id":179949,"date":"2017-09-03T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/03\/the-fruit-of-almost-25-years-of-dishonest-cowardly-and-incompetent-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:42:00","slug":"the-fruit-of-almost-25-years-of-dishonest-cowardly-and-incompetent-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/03\/the-fruit-of-almost-25-years-of-dishonest-cowardly-and-incompetent-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruit of Almost 25 Years of Dishonest, Cowardly, and Incompetent Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This might be comical if it weren’t an H-bomb<\/i><\/div>\n

The DPRK just tested what they claim to be a full up thermonuclear warhead<\/a>, what’s more they claim that it is deliverable by an ICBM:<\/p>\n

North Korea says it has tested a powerful hydrogen bomb that can be loaded on to an intercontinental ballistic missile, in a move that is expected to increase pressure on Donald Trump to defuse the growing nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.<\/span>

<\/span>In an announcement carried on state TV, North Korea said the test, its sixth since 2006, had been a \u201ccomplete success\u201d and involved a \u201ctwo-stage thermonuclear weapon\u201d with \u201cunprecedented\u201d strength.<\/span>

<\/span>There has been no independent verification of the North\u2019s claims that it has achieved a key goal in its nuclear programme – the ability to miniaturise a warhead so that it can fit on a long-distance missile.<\/span>

<\/span>Hours earlier, the regime released footage of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb that would be loaded on to a new ICBM.<\/span>

<\/span>The TV announcement \u2013 accompanied by patriotic music and images of North Korean scenery and military hardware \u2013 said the test had been ordered by the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un.<\/span>

<\/span>The explosion was heralded by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake about six miles (10km) from North Korea\u2019s Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the north-east of the country. It was felt over the Chinese border in Yanji.<\/span>

<\/span>South Korea\u2019s meteorological administration estimated the blast yield at between 50 to 60 kilotons, or five to six times stronger than North Korea\u2019s fifth test in September last year.<\/span>

<\/span>Kim Young-woo, the head of South Korea\u2019s parliamentary defence committee said later that the yield was as high as 100 kilotons. One kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.<\/span>

<\/span>The previous nuclear blast in North Korea is estimated by experts to have been about 10 kilotons.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was a earlier claim of an H-bomb, but that was almost certainly a boosted fission device<\/a>, which is an important step to miniaturizing warheads for use on missiles, but it isn’t the whole megillah.<\/p>\n

The most recent blast appears to be a significant improvement in yield.<\/p>\n

What’s more, if it is a true two stage thermonuclear device, it is no doubt a sophisticated one, because of the relatively low yield of the device.<\/p>\n

The first US Teller-Ulam device, Ivy Mike<\/a>, was 10 megatons, and the first Soviet device, the RDS-37<\/a>, was about 1.5 MT.<\/p>\n

As the warheads became more sophisticated, they became smaller and less powerful, so a 100 KT device could either be an improvement of a boosted device, or a true thermonuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

In either case, it does imply that their understanding of the fabrication of nuclear weapons is advancing rapidly.<\/p>\n

This is further bolstered by their claim that the warhead has an an adjustable yield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The response of SecDef James “Mad Dog” Mattis was to threaten a massive military response<\/a> to “Any threat to the United States or its territory, including Guam or our allies.”<\/p>\n

Because, I guess that our policy of threats and edmands for capitulation have worked so f%$#ing well.<\/p>\n

Adults in the room, my ass.<\/p>\n

Seriously, start by ending the f%$#ing Korean war, which is still technically going on, and then open a f%$ing embassy in Pyonyang.<\/p>\n

It’s not like we never bombed places where we’ve had formal diplomatic relations with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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