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[ltmurnau]

DPRK Successfully Conducts Underground Nuclear Test

Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released the following report: The field of scientific research in the DPRK successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions on October 9, Juche 95 (2006) at a stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.

It has been confirmed that there was no such danger as radioactive emission in the course of the nuclear test as it was carried out under a scientific consideration and careful calculation.

The nuclear test was conducted with indigenous wisdom and technology 100 percent. It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the KPA and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defence capability.

It will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the area around it."

And that's that about that.

In other news, we had a fun weekend with Angie visiting. I made a whole roast turkey and on Saturday we all went to Freedomkilts in Fernwood to get Lianne and Angie measured for their own kilts. Lianne is getting one in moss green and Angie is getting one in charcoal/black for more formal occasions.

The proprietor Steve noticed and liked the skeleton-piper casting Lianne was wearing on her coat, and I gave him a couple more. I also bought a pair of khaki hose, since my green ones are very old and getting full of holes.

Monday we stayed home except for getting some groceries - I made a huge kettle of turkey soup and worked on one of my three new game designs. It was nice to have some extra time off.

Comments

[r1vethead.livejournal.com]

what are you doing for halloween this year?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Same as always: handing out unwrapped candies to the kiddies.

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

Kilts are great, Peter bought a black one in Scotland when we were there.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I wish society here were a bit more accepting of letting men wear them on casual occasions - they are comfortable and I like them.

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

In Berlin you see more and more man wearing skirts....

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that, but then again I have not been paying close attention. Considering that the ostensible size of the explosion was "only" half a kiloton, it's not inconceivable that the explosion was so inefficient as to throw around only minimal amounts of radioactivity.

At an even further stretch, maybe they just piled 500 tons of dynamite at the bottom of a deep mine shaft and touched it off to scare people...remember, we are dealing with Kim Jong Il here, even though he is "Master of the Computer That Surprised the World" (see also (http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/92882.html).

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Well, if their calculations on their time-sharing abacuses (abaci?) indicated a probable yield of 12-14 KT like the first American operational bomb, and they only got 0.55 KT out of it, I would call that a failure (unless you want to claim that their triggering any kind of nuclear explosion at all was a success, as it is a technically demanding feat).