north korea bombs themselves

So, North Korea now has H-bombs,
and Iran has ICBMs
What could possibly go wrong?

I am not sure humanity is going to survive the one-two punch of Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama


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I do not care if we hand it over to China, but North Korea needs to be disarmed if they have achieved or are close to achieving thermonuclear weapons. I cannot see how their possession of such devices is in the interest of us, Russia or China. The three of us need to come to some sort of agreement to disarm them.
 
I tend to agree with the assessment that North Korea trots out the old "Look at us, we're dangerous" line when Kim thinks he isn't getting enough attention.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I suppose it's best not to leave it to chance, but I suspect NK is all talk.
 
Per http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/asia/north-korea-hydrogen-bomb-test/index.html

The White House is saying the "initial analysis is not consistent with an H-bomb". Since the MO of most on this board is to automatically not believe any claims unless it's a R in the White House the article also includes quotes from non-governmental entities.

Norsar, a Norway-based group that monitors nuclear tests, noted this fact and estimated, based on the seismic readings, a blast equivalent to less than of 10,000 tons of TNT -- smaller than those of the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and far less than thermonuclear weapons that typically are as potent as millions of tons of TNT.

"We won't know for another few days or weeks whether this was (a hydrogen bomb)," said Martin Navias, a military expert at King's College London. "It doesn't look like one; ... one would have expected it to be greater if it was an H-bomb."

U.S. or South Korean experts may have an answer soon after analyzing the atmosphere for trace elements of radiation. Yet Mike Chinoy, a fellow at the University of Southern California's U.S.-China Institute, noted that "we may never know 100%."

Count Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the nonpartisan Rand research group, among the skeptics. He said North Korea has had trouble "mastering even the basics of a fission weapon," so it's a big leap to think it could create an even more complicated hydrogen bomb.
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Some escalation --
US deploys a B-52 bomber over South Korea

The U.S. military said in a statement that the B-52 is based in Guam and capable of carrying nuclear weapons. It was accompanied by two fighter planes, a U.S. F-16 and a South Korean F-15, in a low flight over Osan Air Base.

Osan is south of Seoul and roughly 100 km (62 miles) from the North Korean border. The flight was "in response to recent provocative action by North Korea" said U.S. Lt. Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy.

http://news.forexlive.com/!/us-deploys-a-b-52-bomber-over-south-korea-20160110
 
Looks like the North Koreans are trying to get back in the news. Link. Their SLBM flew for a whopping 19 miles. By comparison, the Trident II SLBM carried by the US and Royal Navies can hit targets about 7500 miles away. They've got a long way to go.
 
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