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October Surprise #2, North Korea Detonates Nuclear Device
With a pretty quiet newsday in progress, little more than Republicans and Democrats spinning the Foley scandal, I busied myself with other things, keeping an eye out as Dale Earnhardt Jr., leading in the last lap at Talladega, got wrecked and fell from 1st place to like 22nd place. Someone beat someone in the NFL in the early game and someone beat the Steelers in the late game and I finally dipped back in to Fox news just in time to see the breaking story.
Bouncing back and forth between Fox and Cnn over the past few hours, I gleaned a few bits of information, all subject to revision and spin…
The US, China and Japan were apparently advised about 20 minutes prior to the detonation….
Seismic stations around the world reported a tremor measuring approximately 4.2, located near the publicized test site some 240 miles NE of the North Korean Capitol…
China and Japan called the explosion a ‘provocation’ and expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction…
Fox and Cnn both advised of a forthcoming ‘Presidential statement’ from the White House, nothing as of yet…
Apparently US undersea forces recovered the remains of the long range missile test conducted by North Korea during the summer but the results are classified…
US Stealth, ‘sniffer’ aircraft were headed into North Korean airspace to sample atmospheric ‘leakage’ of the underground explosion…
The following may be classified as spin…
Japan has 10 tons of Plutonium stored from its own reactors since the UN and the US pressured the Japanese to cease weapons development as did South Korea and Taiwan…
Complete nuclear reactors were shipped to North Korea by the United States during the Clinton administration and during the same time period, no action was taken against a Pakistani nuclear scientist who was selling nuclear technology on the open market to North Korea and Iran…
In considering economic sanctions against North Korea, China, who supplies 85-90 percent of Petroleum products to North Korea probably would not stop supplying them as it would cause hardship and starvation and China does not want North Koreans coming across the border into China…
With mid-term general elections less than a month away, what few politicians, both left and right that could be found late on a Sunday night immediately began spinning the event in relation to the Bush Administration and the impact on the elections…
The fear seems to be that once North Korea has demonstrated that they do in fact have a weapon that all other nations in the region, must, as a deterrent, also have one of them puppies…
The spin seems to be that this event will remove the Foley event from the headlines and the talking heads…
We shall see what we shall see…but there could be a Republican ‘bounce’ in the polls as Democrats have been traditionally weak on foreign policy and military strength issues…
Amicus…
With a pretty quiet newsday in progress, little more than Republicans and Democrats spinning the Foley scandal, I busied myself with other things, keeping an eye out as Dale Earnhardt Jr., leading in the last lap at Talladega, got wrecked and fell from 1st place to like 22nd place. Someone beat someone in the NFL in the early game and someone beat the Steelers in the late game and I finally dipped back in to Fox news just in time to see the breaking story.
Bouncing back and forth between Fox and Cnn over the past few hours, I gleaned a few bits of information, all subject to revision and spin…
The US, China and Japan were apparently advised about 20 minutes prior to the detonation….
Seismic stations around the world reported a tremor measuring approximately 4.2, located near the publicized test site some 240 miles NE of the North Korean Capitol…
China and Japan called the explosion a ‘provocation’ and expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction…
Fox and Cnn both advised of a forthcoming ‘Presidential statement’ from the White House, nothing as of yet…
Apparently US undersea forces recovered the remains of the long range missile test conducted by North Korea during the summer but the results are classified…
US Stealth, ‘sniffer’ aircraft were headed into North Korean airspace to sample atmospheric ‘leakage’ of the underground explosion…
The following may be classified as spin…
Japan has 10 tons of Plutonium stored from its own reactors since the UN and the US pressured the Japanese to cease weapons development as did South Korea and Taiwan…
Complete nuclear reactors were shipped to North Korea by the United States during the Clinton administration and during the same time period, no action was taken against a Pakistani nuclear scientist who was selling nuclear technology on the open market to North Korea and Iran…
In considering economic sanctions against North Korea, China, who supplies 85-90 percent of Petroleum products to North Korea probably would not stop supplying them as it would cause hardship and starvation and China does not want North Koreans coming across the border into China…
With mid-term general elections less than a month away, what few politicians, both left and right that could be found late on a Sunday night immediately began spinning the event in relation to the Bush Administration and the impact on the elections…
The fear seems to be that once North Korea has demonstrated that they do in fact have a weapon that all other nations in the region, must, as a deterrent, also have one of them puppies…
The spin seems to be that this event will remove the Foley event from the headlines and the talking heads…
We shall see what we shall see…but there could be a Republican ‘bounce’ in the polls as Democrats have been traditionally weak on foreign policy and military strength issues…
Amicus…
