Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea

cbrocious writes "Yahoo! News is reporting a mushroom cloud over North Korea that occured on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. 'The explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county blasted a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said.'"

They keep this up . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

. . . they'll be more mushroom clouds over North Korea, and soon.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us

[Alcohol Fueled]

Someone set us up the bomb!

It's a good thing...

[wardomon]

all of our troups are in Iraq.

This was reported by CBS...

[Anonymous Coward]

But the cloud was produced by MS word...

those wacky north koreans

[voisine]

Those wacky North Koreans... at it again.

i r korea kekekeke

[Anonymous Coward]

Nuclear Launch... Detected

Am I the only one....

[rel4x]

....who looked at the title of this article, and wondered whether it was North Korea or the U.S. who dropped it?

Re: Looks like Bush finally found...

[Black Parrot]

> Are we gonna have to wait until he strikes oil?

I hear that South Korea has been sneaking barrels of oil across the border, hoping to provoke Bush into attacking the North.

Re: It's a good thing...

[Black Parrot]

> all of our troups are in Iraq.

Yeah, but can anyone account for where James Bond was on Thursday?

Re:Well....From the TFA-

[tmasssey]

Nuclear blasts create a double pulse of light due to the physics of the blast itself. Read more here [fact-index.com].

See? I *knew* that reading all 1800 pages of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears would come in handy...

I know, it was only 800 pages. It just *felt* like 18000... That book would have been much better as a 400 page book.

Your princess is in another castle.

[Anonymous Coward]

In related news King Koopa claims that the giant mushroom cloud which appeared at the former site of the princess's castle was not atomic but the result of a freak accident which occured when genetic micologists attempted to create a hybrid of the following mushrooms: 1up and BigUp. Apparently, the hybrid had been left near a fire flower and BOOM! Mushroom cloud.

Let's not jump to conclusions...

[iamdrscience]

Hey now, maybe it's a good mushroom cloud. You know, like umm... err... a cotton candy factory exploding. That wouldn't be too bad, right?

Re:This was reported by CBS...

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like you are trying to build a nuclear weapon!

Re:Looks like Bush finally found...

[WIAKywbfatw]

No, military action is only to be used against countries that have huge oil reserves.

Re:More Korea

[Dr. Bent]

From the article you linked:

North Korea has said that news of recent nuclear experiments in the South has made it even more determined not to abandon its own weapons programme.

You know what else motivates the North Koreans into developing nuclear weapons? Rabbits. And the Goodyear blimp. And sock puppets. North Korea is going to justify thier weapons program using every wack-job idea they can come up with. The color of Bush's tie offends them, so they have to develop nuclear weapons to protect the North Korean people from that horrible shade of cornflower blue.

It wasn't US and S. Korean experiments that caused the north to develop nuclear weapons, it was US and S. Korean existence that caused them to do it.

Behind the curtain

[s-orbital]

Behind one these curtains is a weird, probably psychotic dictator with weapons of mass destruction? Can you guess which one?

A: Behind our curtain!

Re:This was reported by CBS...

[brxndxn]

typical Microsoft bug..

Re:It's a good thing...

[zaxios]

but at least the world is safe now from the bad Conan the Barbarian art he had in his tacky palaces

Yeah, but we still have to put up with Kim Jong Il's unbridled love of Titanic, and his habit of telling everyone all about it. I think I know which one's more deserving of a U.S. military response.

Re:OK some quick facts here

[TopShelf]

CNN has a similar story up now, speculating that it might be the result of a forest fire...

Cruel way of dealling with NK

[Anonymous Coward]

South Korea (especially the younger generation) wants the US out. So, ...

1) Leave SK
2) Declare that we'll officially recognize whatever government is in control of Seoul.
3) Hope NK attacks
4a) If not, worry about someplace else, and keep asking why the PRC (as the 2nd superpower) has not handled the problem. Imply that this is a stain on the national honour of the PRC and their people.
4b) If so, ask the UN if we can take care of this act of "unprovoked agression" or say we already have the right due to the Korean War UN resolutions (the Korean War never offically ended remember?)

Found him!

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like they really did find Osama...

Re:Oh fuck

[evslin]

Don't worry, as soon as we get Skynet up and running everything will be fine!

Own up boys...

[puddpunk]

Who farted?

Re:Ooops - No Seismic Activity Last Hour, Day, Wee

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that's just great, but North Korea isn't in Southeast Asia.

Wars are Gods way of teaching Americans geography.

Do we have any choice but to play ball?

[Cryptnotic]

Of course we have a choice:

Would you like to play a game?
>list games
Ball
Global Thermonuclear War
>play Global Thermonuclear War
How about a nice game of Ball?
>No, I would like to play Global Thermonuclear War.
Very well...

Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea. Seriously, expect a carrier battle group in the Sea of Japan ASAP if there isn't one there already. Expect half of the U.S. Navy including a dozen submarines loaded with 60 ICBM's each sitting off the coast of North Korea very soon. Oh, we'll be playing "ball" all right.

It wasn't a mushroom cloud but a penis shape

[Anonymous Coward]

To celebrate our Glorious Leaders day of triumph and victory as he continues to lead the world.

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[zCyl]

Take two gases that are explosive when combined and ignigted and put them in two big tanks at a great presure then release it all at once and a split second later when the expaning mix covers a football field, but is still at very high (80+ atmospheres iirc) detonate them.

You forgot to add "stand back".

Re:Looks like Bush finally found...

[Wind_Walker]

How long can we ignore this crazy bastard, Kim Jong-il I mean?

I'm glad you cleared that up. I thought you were talking about Bush.

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[flacco]

Memo to you: This equates to mass murder. NK did as of now not attack your country.

dude, apparently you didn't get the memo. it isn't mass murder, it's a "pre-emptive strike on an emerging threat."

Re:UMMMMMM

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah. It was clearly Dan Rather's credibility imploding.

I guess we'll find out at the next Olympics

[Proc6]

If North Korean mutants take gold in every event, it was probably a nuclear explosion.

Checking of facts?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Germany has an army. During the 2nd world war it was the backbone of NATO
...
> I suggest you better check you facts before you post.

Yes, quite.

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[neurojab]

>Sure we have another choice. We can blow them to hell

Yes, General Ripper. That will ensure the purity and essence of your precious fluids.

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[eSavior]

what will they tell us?
That throwing your cigarettes out the window in NK is NOT a good a idea...
CNN NEWS ARTICLE [cnn.com]

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[southpolesammy]

Ok, you're possibly correct on many counts. But the things I'm seeing so far from the Washington spindoctors look suspicious to say the least. One report on CNN said that an American official believes it was a large forest fire. Could you imagine the diplomatic exchange here (apologies to Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and the rest of the loonies):

North Korean official: We've tested a nuke near the China border.
US official: No you haven't.
NK: Yes we have, and we have the seismographs and radiation signatures to prove it.
US: 'Tis but a scratch. It was probably an earthquake.
NK: There's a big stinking radioactive hole in the ground!
US: We've seen worse.
NK: You liar!

[NK tests a second time over the Sea of Japan -- blast seen from Pusan, South Korea and Fukuoka, Japan]

NK: There -- everyone has seen it. Victory is ours.
US: Hah!
NK: Look you stupid bastard! We've tested twice now, and your own radiation-monitoring satellites confirmed it!
US: No they haven't.
NK: Look!
US: It's just a flesh wound. Could just as easily have been a forest fire.
NK: In the Sea of Japan?!?
US: Chicken....

Re:It's a good thing...

[darkmeridian]

If you have a plan for military intervention in North Korea that doesn't lead to the virtual annihilation of Seoul within hours of the start of the war, please, we're all ears.

A day before the invasion, everyone in Seoul takes ten steps that way.

Re:It's a good thing...

[ignavus]

"If you have a plan for military intervention in North Korea that doesn't lead to the virtual annihilation of Seoul within hours of the start of the war, please, we're all ears."

Pussy Galore flies over them with an airplane armed with sleeping gas. She sprays it and it puts all the soldiers asleep. Then you march in and take over.

It worked in "Goldfinger". Oh, wait ... they *were* North Koreans, and they did it to US troops guarding Fort Knox. Back to the drawing board...

Re:Not likely

[fucksl4shd0t]

"Our words are backed by NUCLEAR POWER"

heh

Re:Misleading

[Anonymous Coward]

Dr Strangelove? Is that you?

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.

Ya...right...forest fire...

Or... The cloud could be the result of everyone eating too much kimchee during the festivities.

Hey, it's just as plausible as a forest fire!

Re:Behind the curtain

[killjoe]

Wha? How can you say GW is weird and psychotic? God told him to run for the presidency, God elected him and God speaks through him. How can the warrior of god be weird and psychotic?

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[d474]

And, yes, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to apologize for Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We are sorry. We are sorry. And, we are sorry.

Feel better? Good. Let's all go to McDonalds!

Re:To weird, this from CNN

[WindBourne]

s/image/explosion/

Re:Misleading

[strider44]

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

Re:Forest fire? Don't think so. - WRONG

[servognome]

Smokey the bear says "Only you can prevent international nuclear panic"

Badger, Badger, Badger,...

[uss_valiant]

Badger, Badger, Badger, ....., Mushroom cloud, Mushroom cloud, Badger, Badger, .... Mushroom cloud, Mushroom cloud, Badger, Badger, ..., Mushroom cloud, Mushroom cloud, Badger, Badger, ...., a Snake, a snaake, snaaaake, a snaaake, ooou it's a snaaake, Badger, Badger, ...

Re:Online seismometers

[passthecrackpipe]

Yes, because movies are the definitive guide to modern technology.

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[Ed_1024]

I blame extreme overclockers: Transcript from last few seconds "I think I can get 2 more Mhz out of the FSB, loo..."

Re:Do we have any choice but to play ball?

[azzy]

The movie was called 'Ball Games' ;)

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[Anonymous Coward]

"Why exactly? (Except for my stupid mistake of writing "2nd" instead of "cold")."

You were going to write the "cold world war"? :|

Re:No, the time is wrong

[NegativeOneUserID]

I have a friend over there in Japan, it was an earthquake.

Shouldn't that be

It was an earthquake. I have a friend over there ... in Japan!

Re:Or you need to do some more reading.

[Jesus_666]

I suggest as a minimum reading a bool called the Curve of Binding Energy...

So, is it true or false?

Re: Well....From the TFA-

[Frequanaut]

" Germany has an army. During the 2nd world war it was the backbone of NATO"

That's right. If I remember correctly Hitler was a big proponent of allowing israel into the EU as well.

Re:Parent is FUNNY not Insightful

[Znork]

Cheney?

Re:L.A.Times article = He's insane

[dave420]

And GW Bush thinks the world was created 4,000 years ago by a guy floating around on a cloud. Kim Jong Il is having tasty dinners every night - who's insane?

Re:Do we have any choice but to play ball?

[pjt33]

Actually it sounds to me like the way we Europeans would describe a stereotypical US citizen.

Re:Checking of facts?

[JDevers]

Well, they had a pretty good army during the second world war too...

Kimchee Explosion

[Ranger]

They probably buried to much kimchee together and it reached critical mass. Rotting cabbage in an enclosed container produces highly explosive gasses. And when you bury them in a collective farm they usually pack them too close together. Then blammo. An enourmous cabbage cloud, not mushroom cloud, shoots skyward. I do understand that any kimchee that survives the inferno is pretty tasty.

Thank God they didn't do that on the Moon or it we would have lost it.

Germans? Forget it. He's rolling.

[istartedi]

Bluto: "Over? Did you say, 'over?' Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"

Boone: "Germans?"

Otter: "Forget it. He's rolling."