NO KOREA DROPS NUCLEAR BOMB

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CNN:  A South Korean government official says North Korea appears to have conducted a nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. (9:36 p.m. EDT Sunday) in Hwaderi near Kilju city, citing defense officials. More here

U.N. Council Presses North Korea to Drop Plans for Nuclear Test [well that worked]

Kim Jong very Il did it. Of course we know what the blame America crowd  will  harangue- Click here: Did the U.S. Provoke N. Korea? - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com  More leftarded appeasement thinking (see Europe.)

If true, this is bad news, very bad news.

Bill Clinton, the gift that keeps on giving.

"The nuclear test is a historic event that brought happiness to the our military and people," KCNA said.

How would Kim know when his people are happy, they are all living in gulags.

Is the nambla supporting Pelosi still crying about masturgate?

VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Because it does.

UPDATE: Seismic activity measuring about  3.8

UPDATE: Wretchard over at Pajama Media has more here

Japan may seek own deterrent: Failing “regime change” in Pyongyang, the most radical adjustment to result from a North Korean nuclear threat could come from a Japan that no longer believes its strategic interests are fully covered by its US alliance … The Japanese, with conventionally armed North Korean missiles already pointed at their major cities, want an unconditional military guarantee. Washington can’t give one, because it cannot risk a military entanglement on the Korean peninsula - where it has 28,000 troops - that mushrooms into a land-war with China. (The Australian)

China Confidential posits;

If the reports are accurate, it means that the world is now in dangerous, unchartered waters.
Almost anything is possible in a post-test world. Sanctions are certain; but the situation could also spin out of control. The potential for armed conflict cannot be underestimated, particularly in light of Pyongyang's incredible "unofficial" threat to attack the US with nuclear weapons (scroll down for the story) and record of threatening Japan and South Korea.

The nuclear test, as we have said, will be a litmus test for US-China relations. Will Beijing finally step up to the plate, to use a US baseball expression, and seriously reduce the aid on which its outlaw vassal depends? Sunday's summit talks between Chinese leaders and Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, produced positive signs.

Reasonable people everywhere can only hope--and pray--for the best.

UPDATE: Seismic activity level upped to 4.2 Richter magnitude tremor. Translation: larger bomb than previously thought.

UPDATE: The UN Security Council is meeting Monday to discuss.  **Crickets Chirping**
Every Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against giving John Bolton the fair up-or-down vote that he was denied last year. Who do they want in there, Madeline not at Albright?

UPDATE: Tony Snow issues White House statement;

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Korean nuclear test would constitute a "provocative act" and Washington expects the U.N. Security Council to take immediate actions, the White House said early on Monday.

"North Korea has claimed it conducted an underground nuclear test. A North Korean nuclear test would constitute a provocative act, in defiance of the will of the international community and of our call to refrain from actions that would aggravate tensions in northeast Asia," said Snow.

"We expect the Security Council to take immediate actions to respond to this unprovoked act," he said.

"The United States is closely monitoring the situation and reaffirms its commitment to protect and defend our allies in the region," said Snow.

UPDATE: GLOBAL EXISTENTIAL THREAT ADVISORY has been raised from guarded to elevated.

Reason: Brazen provocative nuclear test by North Korea causing high geopolitical tension in Asia and worldwide.

UPDATE: 11:00am John Bolton emerges very optimistic (!) from a 30 minute meeting with UNSC. The Ambassador said all members condemned the attack and were of one mind.No one made any attempt to justify these terrible actions.

I did love when Bolton remarked what a juxta it was that just 60 years after the division of Korea into the communist North and the Democratic free South, the difference in the two could not be more stark. On this day the U.N. taps South Korea's Ban Ki-moon as next leader while calling a UNSC meeting to condemn North Korea's hostile test of a nuke.

Ban Has Talent

Wild stuff................

UPDATE: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Western powers dismiss Iran-N.Korea comparisons
[al] Reuters via Yahoo! News
U.S. and European officials on Monday dismissed direct comparisons between the nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, saying they were different problems and would require different solutions.

UPDATE: US detects second North Korea 'blast" here. Meanwhile, Jay is reporting at Stop the ACLU that Harry Reid, minority leader of the Gay bashing Party of Obstruction and Personal Destruction,

Harry Reid weighs in to blame Bush:
I urge the President to immediately appoint a senior official to conduct a full review of his Administration’s failed North Korea policy, develop recommendations to change course, and directly communicate to the North Koreans the consequences of their actions and the Administration’s new course. On North Korea as in other national security policies, the Bush Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress have made America less secure. It is time for a new direction.

What an asshat. I don't care what the polls say, they don't have a shot in November.

UPDATE: I've got to go with Paul of Powerline on this one;

The biggest threat that North Korea poses, I think, is the sharing of its technology with other rogue states and entities. This is where our focus should be. How we prevent it is less clear.

Our primary focus, though, should be on Iran because (a) unlike North Korea it is not a reactionary state that's content with the status quo and (b) it's probably not too late to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, provided we move away from the current overly inclusive multilateralism.

Comments

[Grey Archer]

Hard to know which is more horrible; Kim and his new nuke or the secular progressives who gave it to him and fully endorse his right to have it. These sick people wax poetic about moral equivalency and the US not living up to the Nonproliferation treaty. Sick, sick people. You are right; our lives do depend on it.

[Grey Archer]

Kim Jong Il thanks Pyongyang Bill.

Thanks Bill for all you have done to usher us into the nuclear age and make us a real "playa" in the international community.

Love,

Kim "N-MONEY" Jong Il

[Indigo Red]

I guess there is only one way out of this Clinton created mess now - give everybody nukes.

[Jihad_Joe]

For some reason my trackback didn't work. I included this in my Blogosphere Reaction Roundup!

[john jay]

friends:

as is said of persons --

"a coward dies many deaths, a brave man but one."

-- so may it be rightly said of societies, and civilizations.

we could have stopped north korea and iran from this, at relatively low costs.

we were cowardly. and when you are a coward, there is no retreat from it. we will be cowardly again, and again, because we have already carved in stone our analysis that the risks are/were too great.

as every coward, we shall die many deaths before we die our final one. the anticipation of each, far worse by turn.

we stand exposed for what we are. nothing. the coward who would not stand before the bully.

john jay

[DoctorDentons]

Japan is not like the US...Japan will NOT hesitate to act if threatened...They do not, at this point, have tactical nukes, but I bet I know where they can get some.

[Richard Davis]

The Clinton Doctrine -
"As long as there's no wars during my term, my legacy is assured"

(this thought flashed like a neon light in his brain during his 8 years) (occasionally interrupted at the site of Monica's thong straps..)

As the neon light flashed, the hot spots continued to grow and get closer.....

other thoughts in his head - "30 years from now, the nation will pay a price" - "Yeessss, but I'll have my legacy for the next 29..... cigar?"

[John D. Infidel]

Oh Boy! Didn't see that coming! (sarcasm)

Now we have an excuse to dust off our inventory of over 5,000 nuclear warheads.

Here's my attempt at artistic defamation of Kim Jong Il: http://i-infidel.blogspot.com/2006/10/kim-jong-ils-atomic-self-esteem.html

[Richard Davis]

What's the difference between Madeline Albright and a bowling ball?

[DoctorDentons]

There's a difference ???

[Macker]

Actually, the guy in the middle of that photo showing Mr. Ronery and Madeline Not-so-bright clinking champagne was thinking:
"Hey, I'm not a Republican! Please date me too!"

[Richard Davis]

answer:

If I HAD to, I could eat a bowling ball.

[Richard Davis]

Team America GOT IT RIGHT - the little korean is fuckin nuts!