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[Macam]

A nuclear explosion in the Mururoa atoll. North Korea breathed life into battered hopes for a resumption of dialogue to end its nuclear weapons drive amid contradicting reports that it was ready to test an atomic bomb.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050509/photos_wl_afp/050509130815_h9qctp71_photo0

Trying to find more confirmation on this other than the simply Yahoo! blurb...I'm guessing the image caption may just be incorrect, as the only news I can find on this is continued pressure on N. Korea by nations to resume talks in face of the possibility of a nuclear test. Either that or the news outlets are unusually slow on this...

Just a simple reminder from last year's debates:

LEHRER: Just for this one-minute discussion here, just for whatever seconds it takes: So it's correct to say, that if somebody is listening to this, that both of you agree, if you're reelected, Mr. President, and if you are elected, the single most serious threat you believe, both of you believe, is nuclear proliferation?

BUSH: In the hands of a terrorist enemy.

KERRY: Weapons of mass destruction, nuclear proliferation.

 

[Lambtron]

Well that's just fantastic.

 

[MIMIC]

A nuclear explosion in the Mururoa atoll. North Korea breathed life into battered hopes for a resumption of dialogue to end its nuclear weapons drive amid conflicting reports that it was ready to test an atomic bomb.

Good God...

 

[demi]

floor 24: end of the world

 

[lo escondido]

Link to story
Thats not North Korea's Bomb

 

[Manabanana]

Like they didn't know what was gonna happen?

 

[lo escondido]

Mururoa atoll near New Zealand don't think North Korea would test a bomb out there

 

[Macam]

Link to story
Thats not North Korea's Bomb

I guess that makes things a bit better; was thrown off by the manner in which that news story was reported.

 

[speedpop]

The French are testing again. Hip fucking hooray.

I love it how North Korea is slapped on it and people are like "OMFG where is Mururoa??? North Korea's testing nukes?! BLAME THOSE KONS!"

Didn't you guys go to geography class and/or turn a blind eye to the French testing nuclear bombs in the ocean there over a decade ago?

 

[MrAngryFace]

Yes, but the french leader isnt batshit fucking insane.

 

[Pimpwerx]

Me thinks you misread. That explosion actually looks like that monster one that Russia set off. That 50MT bomb they supposedly built. That's file footage. Guaran-damn-teed the moment NK set us up da bomb, it hits every press wire from here to Timbuktu. PEACE.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Somebody tested a bomb on Mururoa again? I don't think so that shit would be all over NZ news, which it isn't. Isn't that just footage from when the dickheads were last testing there (I can't even remember it cleary, 10 + years ago?)

 

[Smiles and Cries]

i dunno whats going on but I don't like it...


Mike JONES!

Mike JONES!

 

[tetsuoxb]

file photo...

 

[themadcowtipper]

Mike JONES!

Who

Mike JONES!

Who

http://whomikejones.com/

 

[Blackace]

My dad calls me Mike...and my last name is Jones...