North Korea threatens US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

Caveat, that documentary is extremely sensationalist.

The tearoom lady thing is garbage, numerous tour groups hit that service station everyday. Also they way they claim they "bribed" their way in is also untrue, they just went on a regular tour that you can do.

The documentary im watching it now but i aint 100% on what to believe. Kinda felt sorry for the tea lady tho :P
 
The documentary im watching it now but i aint 100% on what to believe. Kinda felt sorry for the tea lady tho :P

The same people made a Chernobyl documentary, if you watch that you'll see the quality of their journalism. They're drunk the entire time, and then go shooting at the end at a shooting range near Kiev but claim they are hunting bears within Chernobyl. It's like using a Top Gear special (Africa/Middle East) as a guide to what those places are like.
 
I think the most dangerous thing they could realistically do is plunge a missile into the wreckage at Fukushima but I don't believe the intention for tomorrows test is to actually hit anything.

Probably wouldn't do much even assuming they could somehow hit it with the precision required to do anything at all. Most likely outcome assuming an accurate hit would be localised contamination of ground water or an outlier chance of a "dirty bomb" scenario which again would be localised to a few miles at best. The chance of wide spread fallout of toxic matter or a runaway reaction are extremely small.
 
Just been reading some of your blog MickyFinns - I'm truly envious and I have no doubt you've had some interesting encounters. Will keep reading too :)

There's no information about you though? How do you come to visit these extraordinary places? Apologies if you've already been over this :)
 
Caveat, that documentary is extremely sensationalist.

The tearoom lady thing is garbage, numerous tour groups hit that service station everyday. Also they way they claim they "bribed" their way in is also untrue, they just went on a regular tour that you can do.

Did you see the tea girl yourself?
 
Just been reading some of your blog MickyFinns - I'm truly envious and I have no doubt you've had some interesting encounters. Will keep reading too :)

There's no information about you though? How do you come to visit these extraordinary places? Apologies if you've already been over this :)

You can arrange trips to them just like anywhere else :), it's just a bit more complicated and can take a fair amount of research. I'm planning a couple days in Afghanistan at the moment and it's taking dozen of hours worth of research.
 
America sold the North Koreans the nuclear facilitates to begin with?

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld served on the board of a Swiss company that in 2000 sold light water nuclear reactors to the government of North Korea, which critics?including Pentagon hardliners?say could be used to produce nuclear weapons.

Rumsfeld?s involvement in the $200 million deal with the Zurich-based engineering company ABB is seen as an embarrassment to the Bush administration, which vehemently opposed the deal during the 2000 presidential campaign, reports the London-based Guardian. ?One could draw the conclusion that economic and personal interests took precedent over non-proliferation,? said Steve LaMontagne of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Rumsfeld sat on the ABB board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush administration. Asked about the reactor deal, the defense secretary told the Guardian that he ?did not recall it being brought before the board at any time.?

http://www.utne.com/2003-05-01/Rums...eaponEquipmenttoNorthKorea.aspx#ixzz2PsV6ZOsF

How on earth have you managed to get from 'A Swiss company with an American on the board sold a reactor' to 'America sold a reactor'?
 
Anyone seen this documentary on N Korea? Its an amazing insight into the nature of the country and ultimately a very sad watch...a guy managed to get into N Korea after few months of trying and he's taken on a mad tour which he secretly films! Surprised he didnt get arrested at some of the things he did haha!

Tearoom lady :(

 
If North Korea fire a missile, even if it is not targeting a key target (which it probably won't), do you think the US will shoot it down just to prove tht they can?

Of course not. Anti missile technology isn't 100% accurate and if they missed imagine the propaganda stories. "USA fails to shoot down NK rocket". It would be a PR disaster.
 
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