N Korea Demolishes Nuclear Reactor Cooling Tower!

[peterloo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7476755.stm

North Korea has demolished the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, in a symbol of its commitment to talks on disarmament.
International television crews were invited to witness the tower being blown up.
The move comes a day after the isolated state handed over long-awaited details of its nuclear programme, but no account of its weapons stockpile.
In return, the US has removed it from a list of states sponsoring terrorism.
State media reported North Korea's Foreign Ministry had welcomed the state's removal from the list, regarding it as a "positive step".
The Yongbyon reactor was shut in July last year as part of a six-party agreement reached 16 months ago, when the North said it would scrap its nuclear ambitions in return for aid and diplomatic concessions.

Analysts say that while the destruction of the tower is not, in itself, a huge step forward, it is still being seen as an important gesture.
"It was a significant and very important step," said US State Department official Sung Kim, who witnessed the event.
"As I saw it, it was a complete demolition."
America has agreed to scrap some sanctions as well as removing the state from its list of terrorist sponsors.
"We assess this as a positive step and welcome it," a foreign ministry spokesman told the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
The reactor, 96 km (60 miles) north of Pyongyang, produced plutonium for the North's nuclear weapons test in 2006.
The BBC's world affairs correspondent said that blowing up the cooling tower meant it would take North Korea about a year to revive its plutonium production, and it would be obvious if it was doing so.
However, he added that "bigger hurdles remain" - including the critical issue of actual weapons stockpiles, as well as suspected North Korean proliferation activities - particularly the supposed Syrian connection.
South Korea said on Friday it hoped a new round of six-party talks - which also include North Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the US - could begin next month.
Meanwhile, the negotiating team has been poring over Pyongyang's 60-page declaration, submitted on Thursday.
Six months overdue, the account is expected to cover the North's plutonium production activities.
But the dossier omits any tally of its nuclear arsenal, any mention of a suspected uranium enrichment programme or claims it helped Syria build a nuclear facility, all denied by Pyongyang.
Mr Bush has emphasised moves to take the North off the US terror list would not begin for 45 days, and only if its nuclear declaration was verified.
But former US envoy to the UN John Bolton labelled the decision "shameful" and the "final collapse of Bush's foreign policy".

[MothBalls]

North Korea has demolished the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, in a symbol of its commitment to talks on disarmament.

Is this all their reactors? Do they have more? Where's the weapons grade material now?

All this did was prove they are broke, can't feed their people and need outside aid to survive. They keep making token gestures so they can get enough handouts to get through next winter, then it will be business as usual.

[STEED]

North Korea has demolished the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, in a symbol of its commitment to talks on disarmament.

So they build a new one, more up to date.

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by STEED

So they build a new one, more up to date.

Ow yehehehes.....

IGOR POWER UP!



HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

Hans Brix!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MothBalls]

Originally Posted by peterloo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7476755.stm

<sarcasm>
I just figured out this was a fake.

It doesn't look like an implosion, it looks like it was caused by a ballistic impact. If you watch it in slow motion while squinting your eyes and chewing on a piece of raw bacon 22 minutes after the hour, you can see the shadow of a projectile hitting it in the side.

If you press your face against the monitor real hard and look up, you can see the ceiling of the sound stage this was filmed in. Looks like the same one Nasa used to fake the moon landing.

It's a conspiracy.
</sarcasm> (I was poking fun at all the 911 conspiracy theorists)

[peterloo]

I just figured out this was a fake.

But they have got all reporters and experts monitoring them. I doubt whether they dare to cheat in front of USA, China, Russia, Japan, S. Korea, in which all of them processes nuclear power plant and possibly spy satellite, which can identify a fake implosion from a genuine one. They would know if N Korea restarts its dirty project again as well. Furthermore, the N. Korean do this for economical assistance, and they definitely don't want to lose this

The only thing that I can imagine of is they transferred some of their technology to other countries prior to their announcement of termination of nuclear development

[Monica Lewinsky]

I am by default, a VERY NEGATIVE person.

Saw the news today, and said ... hmmmmm.

ASSUMING this to be a postive step by them [NK], I am wondering what IRAN does in December 2008 or the year 2009 waiting for a new President to do 'sumthin.

I doubt we will. Israel MIGHT do our dirty work for us long before that, then we could pay $10.00 a gallon for gas after the attack.