Does North Korea have right to nuke test?

[Bill Thompson]

Does North Korea have a right to test a nuclear weapon? How can it know how efective its weapons are unless it tests it? Rather than confront them or complain, shouldn't the United States offer some suggestions of what American cities would be a good choice to test. LA has a lot of smog and most people are kind of tired with the way Hollywood has been going anyway. That city might be a good test city to see how many casualities a North Korean nuclear weapon might make.

[LunarOrbit]

It has as much right to do it as the United States and Russia did, I suppose. That doesn't mean I want to see them do it, or anyone else for that matter.

[Bill Thompson]

admin said:

It has as much right to do it as the United States and Russia did, I suppose. That doesn't mean I want to see them do it, or anyone else for that matter.

WARNING

Failure to read the context of the post and only responding to the title may result in the failure to see dark humor.

(unless you are referring to the glory days when we had those all-out nuclear exchanges with the Soviet Union
and we vowed not to tell everyone about it)

[Al Johnston]

Hmm, so dark as to defy detection

[LunarOrbit]

Hmm, I thought I was responding to a poll question.

[Bill Thompson]

OK, maybe I should have made of list of all the major US cities from which we can vote on for possible "test" sites.

[Al Johnston]

Saint Louis? ;D

[Jason]

Let them nuke New York. It would destroy the UN, relieve us of having to protect a big fat target for terrorists, and maybe even get Senator Clinton too. On the down side we would lose some broadway shows.

As a bonus, though, we'd never have to worry about North Korea again, as we would quickly transform it into a radioactive sea of glass with our retaliatory strikes.

[LunarOrbit]

The anti-ballistic missile system would probably even work against Korean rockets since I doubt they have reached the level of complexity that soviet rockets have (with decoys etc.). So they can test their rockets, and the US can test theirs too. Everybody is happy.

[snakeriverrufus]

We want to test our air bourne laser. Perhaps congress will give us money for more units ;D

[Bill Thompson]

Here is a sane way to view it.

Where some see a disaster, we can choose to see an opportunity. If they want to test the firing of a missile, we can take this opportunity to test our ability to shoot it down.

[PhantomWolf]

Be embarassing if you missed.

[Bill Thompson]

phantomwolf said:

Be embarassing if you missed.

I have heard from some people in defense that that will be very unlikely. But of course one never knows.

[scooter]

There was a lot of press coverage reporting that, based on the impending NK missile test, the US missile defense system had been "switched on"...I found that strangely amusing, as we don't have one...does the press feed on some of the rampant ignorance out there?
Last I heard, the US and Russia were both holding to the moratorium/ban on nuke testing. I would like to see them "talk" to NK and any other country, regardless of "alignment" that it would be ill advised to pursue such testing. This would include further testing by other countries already with proven capability.
China needs to be included in the talks with NK as well.
I'm dubious on what the UN could accomplish.

[echnaton]

North Korea’s actions appear to be the saber rattling of a dying regime. Let us hope that the sabers don’t rattle all the way to war. China, in my opinion, has a mixed agenda here. They surely don’t want a war on their border, on the other hand, a united, democratic Korea on the border would not be particularly attractive either. Both would tend to destabilize the current regime in China. Diplomacy remains the order of the day.