NK confirms successful nuke test

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5a68043bbe3d8dfd1d4097e8ed70527 4.461&show_article=1

North Korea staged a "successful" underground nuclear test on Monday, the communist state's official media said.

South Korea's presidential office said has earlier said that North Korea had appeared to have conducted a nuclear weapons test.

The government received a report on the nuclear test having been conducted, presidential spokesman Lee Dong-Kwan told a briefing.

He said President Lee Myung-Bak called an emergency National Security Council meeting for Monday afternoon.

[Zippyjuan]

Any confirmation on this yet? The last reported one was supposedly a dud if it was indeed a nuclear explosion.
US Geological survey reports a 4.7 magnitude earthquake in the area. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009hbaf.php The last one measured 3.58 but later raised to 4.2 and was estimated by the US to be about one kiloton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test

[Anti Federalist]

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- North Korea state media said the country's military conducted a successful underground nuclear test early Monday, confirming earlier reports of a suspected test based on seismic data.

The news triggered an emergency security meeting among South Korea officials and forced a temporary halt to trading on South Korea's main stock market.

News reports cited North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency as saying the nation had "successfully conducted another underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of its measures aimed at strengthening its self-defense nuclear deterrent in every way."

South Korean officials said earlier that it suspected a nuclear test had taken place after detecting an "artificial earthquake."

The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale, centered about 230 miles northeast of Pyongyang. The epicenter is in the same area where North Korea conducted its previous nuclear test in October 2006.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/north-korea-confirms-underground-nuclear-test

[Mesogen]

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/gallery/yawn-380x540.jpg

So what?

[coyote_sprit]

They are about 65 years late and 19 kiloton short.

[Matt Collins]

So what?

My thoughts exactly. They are not a threat to the US.