The Doom And Gloom Report - N Korea

Well well, nobody wants to play with the "odd" little boy from the house on the corner. Maybe he was treated badly by a parent or two?? Perhaps made fun of by other school kids??

We've seen it before....whether the shunned ones once made fun of don leather trench coats and take their hostility out on their fellow classmates, stand atop a table to announce revolution in their "beer hall putsch" or developing a nuclear weapons to invade the once exclusive society of nuclear armed nations...there are fools, idiots and madmen at every turn.

Ok, so N Korea tested its nuclear weapon, but what's next? No one really knows. Because the society is so closed, so locked off from the rest of the world, so secret it looks like an asian version of ABC's LOST that there is basic disagreement of what happend. An agreement can be reached from many sources that yes, virgina North Korea tested a nuclear weapon....or at least there was a "seismic event" that was evidenced by at 4.2 tremor.

The scientific community can't even agree to the size of the test. I have seen reports that the size could have ranged anywhere from 1 KT to 5KT or more. There is always a comparison to the bomb that was dropped onto Hiroshima which was 10 KT or 12.5 KT depending on your source material. The difference between 10 and 12.5 is maybe .....10-20000 deaths?? not very significant in the grande scheme of things.

1 KT to 5 KT is significantly small.... Not your conventional city killer variety but rather small enough to use on the battlefield. Something large enough to ruin your opponents divisional battle plans.

There is disagreement also on how far N Korea is in terms of placing their newly found toy atop of a missle. Some say they are years away from making the bomb compact enough and others say they have the technical expertise at hand although not the practical working experience.

There is even one report that what was tested was a neutron bomb. Very very interesting if this true. For those too young or who don't rember a neutron bomb releases very high amount of radiation. The damage caused by this type of bomb is to the people from the effects of radiation while leaving infrastructure free from collateral damage. The United States developed a neutron bomb in the late 70's and ceased developement during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

The place for this type of bomb is on the battlefield in both offensive first strike and defensive scenarios.

How do you threaten a madman who is so willing to sacrifice his people to begin with?

It would be like confronting a suicide bomber...."please mr. madman, take the vest off now and we won't have cut your food supply off, your heating oil off, your banking off, make your people live in squalor more so than they already are and if that doesn't motivate you, we'll pull the trigger on this gun we have pointed at your head" "Just take the damn vest off"

hence the dilema

What people fail to understand is it doesn't matter at all what they reasons are on how and why we got to this point in time. Pointing the finger doesn't do any good as this was going to happen anyway. Whether it was today or five years from now, N Korea was going to develope their own nuclear weapon.

Some people play by their own rules.

Meanwhile....keep stocking your safe room in your basement.