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[Poetic.Injustice]

North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong Ho said that his country may consider a test of a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, according to a report from South Korea's official news agency Yonhap.
Ri said the potential test of "the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb" would be one possible "highest-level" action against the U.S., according to the report.
He added that he didn't know what actions would be ordered by Kim Jong-un, Yonhap reported.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/nor...pacific-reports-south-korean-news-agency.html

Irradiate the oceans if old.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Who needs clean, safe water anyway?

 

[Dishwalla]

Who needs clean, safe water anyway?

Avatar quote.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Well if they do, maybe target that plastic island of trash and actually help the planet while blowing it up?

 

[NYCmetsfan]

i know its cnbc but this ending is hilarious

The news sent the yen, considered a safe-haven play, higher. The dollar was fetching as much as 112.55 yen before the news, before falling as low as 112.20 yen afterward. The dollar/yen was at 112.26 at 8:57 a.m. HK/SIN.

South Korea's currency came under pressure. The dollar was fetching as much as 1,134.40 won after the news, compared with as little as 1,131.28 won earlier. The dollar/won was at 1,133.89 at 8:59 a.m. HK/SIN.

we're all gonna die and the markets are still looking how to make money

 

[Chezzymann]

Well if they do, maybe target that plastic island of trash and actually help the planet while blowing it up?

It's a liiiitle too close to land

 

[Farsi]

Never too late to learn how to purify your piss.

 

[Hexa]

These guys know that Trump isn't going to stop the back and forth escalation right? But really, when we need to rely on North Korea to be the bigger person, we're already doomed.

 

[BocoDragon]

Do you want kaijus? Because that's how you get kaijus.

 

[Beartruck]

These guys know that Trump isn't going to stop the back and forth escalation right? But really, when we need to rely on North Korea to be the bigger person, we're already doomed.

That's why China ordered their banks to stop dealing with NK today. They know Trump won't back down, so they're trying to yank NK's leash before they fuck everything up.

 

[Diablos]

And when the fuck do they plan on doing this?

 

[Hickbilly Deluxe]

Yah, go for it. The world is already eyeballing you like a lunatic on a bus licking a knife, I'm sure this will go over well.

 

[MThanded]

We had a good run fam.

 

[SomTervo]

Won't this cause tsunamis and junk too?

That's why China ordered their banks to stop dealing with NK today. They know Trump won't back down, so they're trying to yank NK's leash before they fuck everything up.

Oh i missed that news. That's good.

 

[MMarston]

Godzilla time baby

 

[Derwind]

We had a good run fam.

Thats up for debate.

 

[Farsi]

Thats up for debate.

Nah fam, Mankind has made some amazing strides.

 

[Kayhan]

Look out for giant enemy crabs, Hawaii.

 

[Harrison Bergeron]

If only dilution really was the solution to pollution.

 

[Valkyr Junkie]

Probably because their underground test site is about to collapse.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

We had a run fam.

.

 

[Jintor]

i know its cnbc but this ending is hilarious



we're all gonna die and the markets are still looking how to make money

play to your audience holmes

 

[MThanded]

Thats up for debate.

.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

Time to pre-order Odyssey

 

[Lightning_Roller]

We're so fucked.

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

Probably because their underground test site is about to collapse.

They can just start digging elsewhere.

 

[theignoramus]

I knew they would threaten to do this, their actions leading up this said they would.

Extremely provocative and potentially an act of war depending where in the Pacific they would detonate.

 

[E-Cat]

https://twitter.com/j_berlingerCNN/...tics/kim-jong-un-on-trump-comments/index.html

Kim Jong Un’s response to @realDonaldTrump’s UN speech. Written in first person, released by #NorthKorea media ["This is not a rhetorical expression loved by Trump -- I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire."]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911175246853664768

"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!"

 

[jellies_two]

Would be far from the first h bomb that has gone off in the Pacific Ocean...

To be exact they would have to test 105 to catch up to trump.

 

[Conciliator]

yeezy definitely had a good run at least.

 

[Oberon]

Aren't nuclear bombs usually detonated either in deserts, underground or the ocean anyway?
It's not like people cared when other countries did that (even when they irradiated people in foreign countries)

 

[Xando]

Aren't nuclear bombs usually detonated either in deserts, underground or the ocean anyway?
It's not like people cared when other countries did that (even when they irradiated people in foreign countries)

Yeah.

US nuke tested the shit out of the pacific.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Yeah.

US nuke tested the shit out of the pacific.

We displaced those native populations like they were playthings.

And then blew those atolls, and islands away.

 

[fierrotlepou]

Can they wait until Odyssey is out?

 

[Xando]

We displaced those native populations like they were playthings.

Not only that but also some natives weren’t displaced and just got hit by the fallout instead.

the largest being the 15 Mt Castle Bravo shot of 1954 which spread considerable nuclear fallout on many of the islands, including several which were inhabited, and some that had not been evacuated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds

 

[andythinkpad]

But Orange Turd said totally destroy North Korea, like totally.

 

[kyser73]

Operation Hardtack, US nuclear test

Also google Operation Nutmeg

Soviet test

Basically you get a huge column of superheated steam, a mini-tsunami and if you do it in an still, a BIG hole on the sea floor.

FWIW Castle Bravo wasn't an undersea test, and famously was massively over its projected yield.

 

[Mohonky]

The French used to do this pretty routinely too

 

[kyser73]

The French used to do this pretty routinely too

A widely held but incorrect belief. The French used drilled shafts for their Pacific tests, and didn't detonate the devices in water.

There were a total of 8 underwater detonations before the practice was banned under the Partial Test Ban Treaty, all carried out by the US & USSR.

 

[Oberon]

A widely held but incorrect belief. The French used drilled shafts for their Pacific tests, and didn't detonate the devices in water.

There were a total of 8 underwater detonations before the practice was banned under the Partial Test Ban Treaty, all carried out by the US & USSR.

France did the more noble thing of using their colonies as testing ground

 

[Steel]

Who needs clean, safe water anyway?

Radiation doesn't spread much in water. That's not the problem here.

 

[entremet]

These guys needs to be stopped by the international community. Cut them off completely. They are insane. Moreover, they not competent. If something goes wrong, it would be disastrous.

 

[sleverfunk]

Man these leaders should stop pretending they're playing civilization or some 4x game.

 

[nubbe]

Let's hope the US starts shooting down any missile that leaves NK air space

 

[ChryZ]

Rocketman wants to be Bomberman.

 

[Jedi2016]

These guys needs to be stopped by the international community. Cut them off completely. They are insane. Moreover, they not competent. If something goes wrong, it would be disastrous.

Which side are you talking about?

 

[Always-honest]

So this country was completely bombed to bits decades ago. You'd think they know their chances of being victorious in this.

Which side are you talking about?

Haha.

 

[lastplayed]

Which side are you talking about?

Both sides need their heads banging together like naughty children.

 

[siddx]

Aren't nuclear bombs usually detonated either in deserts, underground or the ocean anyway?
It's not like people cared when other countries did that (even when they irradiated people in foreign countries)

People most certainly did care. I am old enough to remember people being livid and fighting tooth and nail to stop these kinda of tests. And eventually that opposition changed policy so it didn't happen anymore. The excuse that other governments made a shitty choices in the past isn't a blank check for current ones to do the same. You are supposed to learn from others mistakes, not use it an excuse to repeat them.

 

[Pomerlaw]

These guys needs to be stopped by the international community. Cut them off completely. They are insane. Moreover, they not competent. If something goes wrong, it would be disastrous.

What about the elected insane leader of America?